Some organisations are making accessibility improvements to their websites, but many are seemingly not making accessibility adjustments. Disabled people don't access their website, they say, so why should they care?

Why you should care about disabled Internet users

The statistics on number of users who may face difficulties due to your website's accessibility are quite startling:

* There are 8.6 million registered disabled people in UK - 14% of population (source: DRC)

* One in 12 men and one in 200 women have some form of colour blindness - 9% of UK population (source: Institution of Electrical Engineers)

* Two million UK residents have a sight problem - 4% of population (source: RNIB)

* There are 12 million people aged 60 or over - 21% of UK population (source: UK government)

Although there is inevitably some overlap between aforementioned groups, adding up these numbers provides a total of 48% of UK population that could potentially face problems with your website's accessibility. That's an extraordinarily high number.

It's not just disabled users who can't access your website

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1. Your password must be alphanumeric. That simply means a mixture of numbers and letters such as xpf2778z. Why? When a hacker tries to break into a system they often use what are called dictionary or brute force hacks. A dictionary hack is an application that simply uses standard words and word combinations in an attempt to guess your password. For example many computer users use word "password" as their actual password. A dictionary hack would crack that password in a few moments. Using alphanumeric passwords increases number of possible password combinations by millions.