Accessibility CSS Design
Here at Redbak we are committed to making our site and our customer's sites more accessible to and support the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
An accessible technology is one that does not discriminate against users based on platform or disability.
Why should you be accessible ?
An unaccessible website will not only put many users off a site but also mean discriminating others and potentially breaking the law.
The 'UK Disability Discrimination Act' applies to websites and thanks to the 'Disability Rights Commission' its being actively enforced.
Making website standards compliment isn't just a one way street though. There are many benefits for you the customer. In our experience they are:
- Better accessibility means better positioning on search engines
- Better accessibility for all users on all browsers
- Better accessibility for the disabled (inline with the Disability Discrimination Act 1995)
- Smaller faster pages to download
- Quick and easy to make future design changes to the site
Where possible all our sites are now developed with the latest web standards in mind. These include, xhtml 1.1 and CSS design Standards. We believe the importance of the issue has been neglected and we pride ourselves in developing sites that meet these accessibility standards.
Common standards we can be compliant with include:
Valid HTML / XHTML - as defined by
- W3C (www.w3.org)
- Sitemorse (www.sitemorse.com)
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 (bobby.watchfire.com)
- recommended by the RNIB (www.rnib.org.uk)
- recommended by the government (www.disability.org)
Please don't hesitate to contact us if you would like more information on how redbak design can help improve your websites' accessibility.
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