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Disability Discrimination and Accessibility


 
Since 1st October 1999 under section III of the Disability Discrimination Act, service providers have had to make “reasonable adjustments” for disabled people, such as providing extra help or making changes to the way they provide their services. In 2002, the Code of Practice for part III of the Act was published and specifically mentions that web accessibility is now a legal requirement.

Besides the legal requirements for you to make your website accessible, an accessible website also makes good commercial sense:

Over 40% of website viewers and all of us here at GoFour.co.uk struggle to read font of 10 pixels or less therefore it makes great sense to be inclusive with your website technology.

With an increased use of PDAs and mobile phones to surf the web, making your site accessible to these technologies is opening your company up to potential new clients.

So it makes great sense to make your website so that the maximum number of users can access and understand its message:


    * About 2,000,000 people in the UK have significant sight loss

    * The vast majority of people with sight problems are older people, aged 65 and over

    * There are an estimated 25,000 children with sight problems in the UK, about 12,000 of these children also have other disabilities

    * At the end of March 2006 there were 364,615 people in the UK who were registered as severely sight impaired (blind) or sight impaired (partially sighted). A larger group of people also have significant sight loss, who do not fall into these narrow categories

    * Every day another 100 people start to lose their sight. This figure is based on the average number of people each day who registered as severely sight impaired or sight impaired.


RNIB Digital Accessibility Team's website



Appearing higher in search engine rankings - Search engines cannot usually understand non-text content, such as images, audio and video. By providing alternative content to each of these forms of content, search engines will have a better understanding of the purpose of the website and potentially move your site up the rankings.


Your website will also appear more quickly and will do better in Google searches because the search engines can read your site more quickly and concisely. This means that it is a good start to your sites search engine optimisation. (SEO).


Since 1998 world wide web consortuim (W3C) laid down a set of rules as to how web sites should be coded and how web browsers should display those sites. We endeavour to work with clients and their requirements to make sure these rules are met.

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