Accessible Websites Limited
Accessible Website Information.
This website has been put together by Accessible Websites Limited to try and help you understand more about accessible website design. There are lots of questions concerning accessible website design and how it affects both people who want a website and people who use websites. Once thought about, a lot of the things covered by the accessibility and usability of a website seem to be common sense. However before people generally think about website usability or website accessibility it is generally dismissed as something that doesnt need to be done or is a waste of time. After learning a little bit more about it I hope that you will agree it is not a waste of time and is something that will not only make your website more accessible and usable to more people, but will also make your website more attractive to the search engines and will assist you in getting a higher search engine ranking than a website that has not been designed to be accessible or is not very user friendly.
Website Accessibility & Usability
Website accessibility & usability deals with the ability of people of all abilities not just peole with disabilities to be able to access the information on a website. As well as dealing with the ways in which people with disabilities can access the information on a website, it also deals with the way in which users of a website with older computers, older, browsers or older software view websites. [more information]
Assistive technologies
There are many technologies and software applications that can make your website accessible to people with disabilities and these should be considered prior to designing your website. There are also many browser technologies used to assist users to view a website in a way that suits their needs, these also need to be considered before website design begins. [more information]
Disabilities
Disabilities which may affect a users ability to access the information on your website are varied. Many of these disabilities are not deliberatly overlooked but are overlooked due to website owners lack of awareness of how some disabilities affect the usability of a website. The website that you may have spent weeks or months designing may look and fell great to you, but how would someone who is visually impaired navigate around your website. How would somone who is colour blind, dislexic, or has a motorbility disability be able to access the information on your website. [more information]
What Are
Many people are confused by the terms used on the internet or by people using websites & the internet. There are many acronyms used that we all have heard but dont really know what they mean. This section of the website will help you understand what many of these strange new words, technologies and acronyms mean. [more information]
Accessible Website Design
If after reading all of the information on this website you decide that you would like to have an accessible website design that is both accessible and usable to as many people as possible then please visit the Accessible Websites Limited website. I will be able to provide you with a quote to design you a new website or redesign your old website to make it both accessible and usable. [more information]
