If you're like me, you use the web every day. And you do so just about as easily as you breathe. Reading websites and accessing media is effortless. But imagine if it wasn't. Imagine if you suddenly couldn't read the text on your favourite news website. Or if the layout of that online store you were shopping became so confusing that it was impossible to make sense of it. Or if you just couldn't even type your search term into Google.

That's what using the web can be like for people that are differently-abled. The web has generally been a pretty unwelcoming place if you are visually impaired especially.  The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines are an international standard that's trying to change that. It aims to help web site owners adapt their content to be accessible for as many people as possible. And this summer, version 2.2 of the guidelines will become the official standard. That will mean that some laws that require accessibility will also be updated. Here to tell me more about this is Mike Cart, vice president of Siteimprove Canada.