Web accessibility is a must in today's changing world. However, for over 160 million people in the United States alone, that access is very limited due to impaired vision. About 15 million of those who are visually impaired are completely blind. The other 150 million visually impaired people have either color-blindness or significant visual acuity conditions such as myopia or hyperopia. Roughly 10 million people in the United States have color-blindness. Approximately 60 million people have myopia while 75 million people in the U.S. have hyperopia. Considering the United States represents only about 5% of the entire world population, it is likely there are billions of visually impaired people worldwide, and the number of visually impaired people in the world is only expected to increase in the future.

For this reason, modern websites must be made with consideration for those with visual impairments. There are several major impairments. These include total blindness, color blindness, and visual acuity problems such as myopia and hyperopia. Throughout this website, there are descriptions of each type of visual impairment as well as types of good web design practices, coding elements, and tools available to help each individual better use the Internet. Lastly, there are also pages with the federal regulations and industry standards involved with making websites that are easily accessible to the visually impaired.