Accessibility & Usability







You have a website, are you sure people can access it?
Our web accessibility services can increase accessibility and usability
for people:

» with visual, hearing, physical and cognitive disabilities

» using new technologies (cell phones, handheld devices, internet TV)

» using old technologies (slow modems, old browsers)

» who don't speak English (text to other languages)

» who can't read

Web accessibility and disability discrimination.
Recent case law in Australia has highlighted the issue of web accessibility. It is true to say that the vast majority of web sites currently in use do not offer access through text to speech browsers for the visually impaired. Although this is yet to be law in the UK, we feel there is more than a moral requirement to consider the current disability access guidelines from the World Wide Web Consortium.

There is no planned change in the law on this issue that we are aware of, however with regards to B2E (business to employee) Intranet sites, it certainly has disability discrimination implications and therefore should become a moral obligation to implement the level one guidelines as a starting point. In the US, it has already become a legal requirement for some sites to be at least level one compliant or be taking 'reasonable' steps to achieve this level of accessibility.

We feel this is a genuine issue that needs to be addressed and believe we can offer a cost effective way to implement the recommended accessibility guidelines. We are also offering consultancy to site owners to assist your implementation and we can also offer a validation service for your current design to review its accessibility issues.