Disabled/Accessibilty vs SEO?

[mjcarrjr]

Can anyone point me to resources that helps website owners balance these two issues? Or how to SEO a site meant for disabled users? or how to make an SEO'd site more accessible?

Thanks!

[TaitLarson]

Sites that work hard at Web Accessibility often reap large SEO benefits.

If you think about it, search engine crawlers have a pretty limited view of any give web page.  They can't see the images.  They work mostly by indexing text strings and ignoring large components of any web pages presentation.

There's a ton of simple tips for accessibility that help with SEO.  For instance, add captions to your images and create navigational components out of HTML lists.

Google's SEO Guide touches on Accessibility

The W3C has Accessibility Guidelines for HTML which is also worth reading.