Accessibility Services
A website is a powerful marketing tool offering an international market place for your company. After making an investment you need to know your website can be viewed by the widest audience possible.
A diverse selection of users with unique needs & requirements will access your website. It is therefore essential everyone can access and interact easily.
eplatforms is well practised in providing solutions for a wide range of recipients.
User Accessibility
eplatforms test their designs with a group of non-technical and technical users to ensure the website is clear, easy to use and navigate. eplatforms create sites that are best viewed by the most popular browsers but are compatible with a much wider range of non-standard browsers, giving maximum compliance.
Accessibility for the Disabled
UK law requires websites to be designed to cater for disabled users. This may include facilities to increase text & image sizes or compatibility with audio or braille browsers for the blind. eplatforms have experience in developing for a wide range of accessibility requirements and is able to provide advice on meeting the governments website disability legislation.
Some statistics:
- 8.6m people in the UK are registered disabled (14% of the population)
- 9% have some form of colour blindness
- 2m have a sight problem
If a disabled person finds a business inaccessible, 67% of his or her friends and family would consider not using that business themselves. [DRC, 2004]
Search Engine Accessibility
Search engines provide a high proportion of visits. Good accessibility for search engines is therefore essential to the marketing of your website. eplatforms considers a wide range of design features when creating a site. We check all the basics ensuring key pages such as site maps are easily accessible, allowing users and search engines to quickly access all pages of the site.
Compliance
There are a number of important standards that all websites should comply with.
At eplatforms we take care and time over the quality of our work to produce high-quality accessible websites.
Common standards we are compliant with include:
- Valid HTML/XHTML - as defined by W3C (www.w3.org)
- Valid CSS - as defined by W3C (www.w3.org)
- Disability accessibility - as defined by the W3C WAI (www.w3.org/WAI/)
Accessible content - as:
- defined by the W3C WCAG (www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/)
- recommended by Watchfire (webxact.watchfire.com)
- recommended by the RNIB (www.rnib.org.uk)
- recommended by the government (www.disability.org)