Accessible Website Design

Our website design ensures that the website meets the current website design accessiblity standards.

Content and design are tailored to ensure that the requirements of UK law (Disability Discrimination Act) and your disabled visitors are catered for.

Whilst intiially many clients do not see the immediate benefits to them of ensuring that their website meets accessbility standards the benefits soon become apparent following discussion of the issues involved and the commercial benefits for the business and website.

Accessibility Standards
Our aim is to ensure as far as practically possible the design of your website will meet the current website accessiblity standards, as advised by the World Wide Web Consortium.

We can advise you further of some of the issues that these standards raise and the benefits to your business.

Please contact us to discuss your website design requirements.

Further information on accessbility issues follows.

The Disability Discrimination Act stipulates:

Part III of the DDA refers to the provision of goods, facilities and services. The Code of Practice, which specifically mentions websites, can be downloaded in its entirety from the DRC website.

The relevant quotes from the 175-page Code of Practice are:

  • 2.2 (p7): “The Disability Discrimination Act makes it unlawful for a service provider to discriminate against a disabled person by refusing to provide any service which it provides to members of the public.”
  • 4.7 (p39): “From 1st October 1999 a service provider has to take reasonable steps to change a practice which makes it unreasonably difficult for disabled people to make use of its services.”
  • 2.13 - 2.17 (p11-13): “What services are affected by the Disability Discrimination Act? An airline company provides a flight reservation and booking service to the public on its website. This is a provision of a service and is subject to the act.”
  • 5.23 (p71): “For people with visual impairments, the range of auxiliary aids or services which it might be reasonable to provide to ensure that services are accessible might include ... accessible websites.”
  • 5.26 (p68): “For people with hearing disabilities, the range of auxiliary aids or services which it might be reasonable to provide to ensure that services are accessible might include ... accessible websites.”

This information is courtesy of Webcredible: Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) & web accessibility.

Our principle aim at present is to design websites that conform to XHTML 1.0 (our principal standard) and CSS design standards of the World Wide Web Consortium.

Please contact us if you wish to discuss any issues regarding accessiblity standards and requirments for your website design.