Accessible Website Design

What is an Accessible Website?
An Accessible Website is one that is accessible for those with disabilities, so that they can can navigate, understand and interact with the site.

The new Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) Part III, states that website owners are advised to ensure that disabled users are not disadvantaged by the design of the site. The guidelines are laid down by The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an international consortium who work together to develop web standards and guidelines. They are a forum for information, communication, and collective understanding. For more information you can read the articles found on the W3C website.

Making your site Accessible
If you are a large organisation or government body it is becoming increasingly important have a W3C compliant website. Armadillo can provide this service for you. Whether you require a new website, or have an existing site that you wish to make compliant, we can optimise the site correctly for you.

New Sites
Armadillo now build all new websites with Accessibility in mind; the level of Accessibility is dependant on the clients requirements. We will code your website using the latest recommended techniques to make it accessible, search engine friendly and fast-loading.

Existing Sites
For existing sites, Armadillo will carry out an Accessibility Test to report on the current status of your website. We perform manual checks to assess your site using the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) guidelines as our benchmark. We will then advise you of the level of recoding required to bring the site up to the correct standards.

Whatever your requirement, please feel free to call us for a chat.