Web Accessibility
Design-Ecommerce.com provides web accessibility consultancy services.
Web accessibility means making web pages accessible to all users, especially those with disabilities such as:
- Visual (blindness, poor eyesight and colour blindness)
- Aural (deafness and impaired hearing)
- Cognitive (dementia and dyslexia)
- Physical or Motor (muscular dystrophy, cerebral palsy, stroke and Parkinson's Disease)
Solutions
Design-Ecommerce.com can either:
- Develop you anything from a small brochure website to a more complex ecommerce site optimised for accessibility from scratch.
- Optimise your existing website for accessibility after an initial evaluation.
- Train you on the techniques involved in optimising a site for accessibility.
Web Accessibility Benefits
The benefits to a business in acquiring a standards compliant website optimised for accessibility, developed with XHTML and CSS, and without tables, include the following:
- Increased reach to special needs users (people who are disabled, colour blind, have a sight problem, or aged over 60 years old)
- Increased reach to different technologies used for accessing the Internet like Handhelds, PDAs, WebTV, Lynx browser, and screenreaders
- Improved web page download times
- Reduced bandwidth costs
- Compatibility with the latest browsing technologies
- Enhanced credibility
- Positive PR effect
- Higher search engine rankings
- Enhanced usability
- Easier management
- Web page print friendly
- Meet web accessibility legal requirements
To find out more about the benefits of accessible website design, please refer to our more detailed page on web accessibility benefits.
Disability Statistics
There are approximately:
- 600 million disabled people worldwide
- 54 million disabled people in USA
- 8.6 million disabled people in UK
- 37 million disabled people in EU
- 4.2 million disabled people in Canada
- 3.7 million disabled people in Australia
Disabled people in the UK have a disposable income of £50 billion per year. (source: Employers Forum on Disability)
The annual discretionary spending of disabled people in USA is estimated at US$175 billion. (source: Employers Forum on Disability)
Disabled people in Australia have a discretionary income of at least AUS$26 billion. (source: Employers Forum on Disability)
Web Accessibility Techniques
Find out information on the techniques involved in optimising a website for accessibility at our web accessibility techniques page.
Accessibility & Usability Evaluation (Audit)
If you already have a website, then you may be interested in our accessibility and usability evaluation (audit) service. This entails a thorough analysis of your existing site's accessibility and usability strengths and weaknesses. Upon completing the evaluation, we report our findings to you together with any recommendations for improvement.
More Information
Design-Ecommerce.com is based near Muir of Ord in The Highlands of Scotland.
Get in touch to discuss your requirements and for more information on our web site accessibility & usability services.
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