Accessibility

Image showing a quote from Tim Berners-Lee saying: The power of the web is in it's universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.Designing with accessibility in mind enables your web site content to be available to the largest possible number of readers, visitors or customers, regardless of disability or the type of access technology used. Businesses providing accessible information and services online are open to a wider range of customers.

Search Engines don't see design!

The largest and possibly most important visitors to any web site are the search engines like Google and Yahoo. Search engine crawlers cannot see design and look for meaningful, structured content. The accessibility techniques we employ ensure that search engines are granted easy access to your content, improving positions and potentially increasing visitor numbers.

Why is web accessibility important?

  • Well first and foremost it is the law! - A website is regarded as a service and the DDA (Disability Discrimination Act) makes it unlawful for a service provider to discriminate against disabled people.
  • As a website owner why would you want to exclude people from being able to access and use your website?
  • An accessible website tends to gain higher ranking with the search engines.
  • Keeps costs down! Websites that use modern coding techniques can be completed in less time than traditional table based layouts which means less cost to you.

There is no reason why web design companies are still not designing to the latest web standards, yet most still aren't. Get in touch to see how we can help make your website accessible.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts are intended to help users who have difficulty in using pointing devices such as a mouse. This website uses the UK government access key system and the following information details each of the keyboard shortcut commands available to you. The access keys we use on this site are as follows:

  • s - Skip navigation
  • 1 - Home page
  • 2 - News
  • 3 - Sitemap
  • 9 - Feedback Form
  • 0 - Access key help
  • a - Portfolio
  • b - Webdesign
  • c - Website Hosting
  • d - Print Design

Depending on your browser type use one of the following:

  • Internet Explorer 5+: Hold down the ALT key and select the number/letter of the access key, then press ENTER.
  • Internet Explorer 4: Hold down the ALT key and select the number/letter of the access key.
  • Internet Explorer 5+ for Mac: Hold down the CTRL key and select the number/letter of the access key
  • Internet Explorer 4.5 for Mac: Access keys are not supported.
  • Netscape 6+: Hold down the ALT key and select the number/letter of the access key.
    Netscape earlier versions: Access keys are not supported.
  • Mozilla: Hold down the ALT key and select the number/letter of the access key.

Images

All content images used in this site, that are not part of the CSS include descriptive alt attributes.

Visual Design

This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout. This site uses only relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified "text size" option in visual browsers. If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the content on this site should still be readable.

Standards Compliance

All pages comply with the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
All pages validate as xhtml Transitional.

We have tried our best to make this website accessible to everyone, however if you do find any problems accessing any part of this site please let us know and we will do our best to fix these issues. You can e-mail us from our contact page.


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