We build websites to conform to Watchfire Webxact. We have been building high quality, cost effective web services for non-profit organisations, charities and small business's since 1999.
W3 accessibility guidelines 1.0
Make Web content accessible to people with disabilities.
W3 accessibility checklist
Checkpoints for Accessibility Guidelines.
W3 accessibility techniques
Strategies for authoring accessible content.
UK Business and the DDA
A clearly written FAQ explaining the Disability Discrimination Act.
About 8.6m people in the UK - some 14% of the population – are registered disabled. [Disability Rights Commission]
10% of the UK population is dyslexic.
Almost 20% of the working age population in the UK is disabled. [Directgov, June 2004]
3.4 million people have disabilities preventing them from using the standard keyboard, screen and mouse set-up with ease. [Employers’ Forum on Disability]
There are 1.6 million registered blind users. [Employers’ Forum on Disability]
Two million UK residents have a sight problem. [Royal National Institute for the Blind]
One in 12 men and one in 200 women have some form of colour blindness - 9% of the UK population [ IEE]
12m (21% of population) are over 60. [E-consultancy, Retail: Online Marketing Benchmarks, June 2004]
£50 billion is the estimated collective spending power of the UK’s disabled population. [Disability Rights Commission, 2004]
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Accessibility is the term used to describe the process of making your website available to the widest possible audience. Accessibility makes good business sense, it gets your message across to the more people and it's also the law. Scottweb Design combines great design with W3C Level 3 compliance on our websites.
From October 2004, the Disability Discrimination Act, 1995 (DDA) requires service providers to ensure the services they provide are accessible to people with disabilities. The DDA requirement applies to services delivered via the web and it applies to all businesses and all public sector organisations.
By making your web-site as accessible as possible:
We believe accessibility for all users is an important issue and has been hugely neglected by the development community. This website has been designed to be:
Keyboard shortcuts: Accessibility Keys
We build websites to conform to Watchfire Webxact testing for quality, accessibility, and privacy issues.
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Ensuring compliance with these standards has many benefits and we recommend these changes to all our clients, the key benefits we have found include:
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was created in October 1994 to lead the World Wide Web to its full potential, partly by creating some common standards to ensure interoperability. This commitment includes promoting a high degree of usability for people with disabilities. This web site has been designed to conform to W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 level AAA (the highest level).
The 'Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0' (WCAG) is a W3C specification providing guidance on accessibility of Web sites for people with disabilities. Developed by the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative (W3C-WAI), the specification contains fourteen guidelines which are general principles of accessible design. These guidelines not only make pages more accessible to people with disabilities, they make them more accessible to all users, including those using different technologies to view the pages.
Legally, you achieve web accessibility determined on how your site measures up against the de-facto W3C-WAI standards. These standards point to 3 levels of web accessibility:
This web site has been validated and conforms to W3C Recommendations for XHTML and CSS. The site can be viewed in most current browsers and was tested on Internet Explorer, Mozilla/Firefox and Opera.