Web Accesibility

Websites are a unique communications medium in that unlike print which can exclude people who are blind or audio which can exclude people who are deaf it can be accessed by most people even when those people have profound disabilities.

Providing this access isn’t optional it’s a legal requirement. Nor is it terribly difficult a standards compliant website will be a long way on the route to being accessible. Sadly the majority of websites remain inaccessible usually because of a lack of awareness either on the part of the site’s owners or the Web developer.

There are other benefits to providing an accessible website: accessible websites can perform significantly better in the search engine results pages well, what is Google if not a non-sighted website visitor for example.

We can help organisations to make their websites meet current accessibility guidelines and legislation including the World Wide Web Consortium’s Accessibility Guidelines and The Royal National Institute of Blind People’s See It Right guidelines. We can review the current website and determine where the site is failing and provide written recommendations for remedial action. This can either then be implemented by the current Web team or if required by us.