When you have a website, you want as many people as possible to be able to access it. For many users this is simply a matter of using a standard PC however for 1 in 7 people in the UK who suffer from a disability, website access can take a different form and a badly designed site can become completely inaccessible. There are several disabilities groups which need to be considered when designing a site however these include:
- Visually impared
- Colour blind
- Dyslexic
- Unable to use a standard mouse
An inaccessible website can not only be impossible for some of these groups to use but under the 1995 Disability Discrimination Act, it could also be illegal. As such it is now vital to take accessibility into consideration at every stage of the design process.
In recent years, organisations such as the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) and the World Wide Web Consortium have brought out Web Accessibility Initiatives (WAI) which all our website designs adhere to. Our design team has the required knowledge of accessibility and by adhering to the WAI criteria and only using accessible methods for our site designs, we can ensure all our designs are able to satisfy the legal requirements of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.
In a similar manner to accessibility, browsers, search engines and other devices all expect certain coding languages and methods to be used when producing a website. W3C Standards are the formal standards and specifications for coding on the internet. These standards ensure that if your website is standards compliant, it will display consistently in any web standards compliant browser.
All our designs are done with web standards and accessibility in mind at every step of the way. To ensure all our designs adhere to this, each page undergoes a standards validation check before launch ensuring your website will be available to as wide an audience as possible.
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