Accessibility

Web sites need to be accessible not only to youngsters with perfect eyesight using the latest PC - but to people with a range of abilities, software and computers, and increasingly, to other computers.

Visual impairment

Standards for accessibility develop rapidly and we assess the audience of each site to apply the most appropriate techniques. This site follows the WAI guidelines. For example:-

• The font size automatically adjusts to the size set on your PC
• The text and background colours have good contrast
• Background logos are faint
• Images all have alternative text

Computers

It's important that not just people, but other computers can read your website. Computers don't generally read images or interactive menus so it is very important to make sure that as well as looking attractive, the page is designed with other computers in mind. Some hand held devices such as Blackberrys can not display eye-catching designs or dazzling visual interfaces, so it is important that what they DO display makes sense and that the site can still be navigated.

Search engines

We design our pages so that they can be read, categorised and ranked by search engines - see web site promotion and search engines.

Browser software

Pragmatically, we usually advise designing for browsers released in the last 5 years (IE6+, firefox3 etc). Last month, only 60 visitors out of 60,000 acessed our pages using older browsers. We can of course design pages for any browser of any age should you need it.

Contact us for more information