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Web Development Help & Advice
Web Site Accessibility
8 Guidelines For Usability Testing
In professional web design circles, the usability testing session has become an essential component of any major project. Similar to focus groups in brand development and product launches, usability ...
A Business Case For Accessible Website Design
More enlightened businesses recognise that accessibility is a huge commercial ROI opportunity rather than a regulatory straightjacket. Disability comes in all kinds of shapes and forms. The market in...
Benefits Of An Accessible Website: Part 1 - Increase In Reach
The DDA (Disability Discrimination Act) states that service providers must not discriminate against disabled people. A website is regarded as a service and therefore falls under this law, and as such...
Designing your Web Site for ALL Browsers
Let's face it. Building a web site that browses consistently on multiple platforms and multiple browsers is not always as easy as we would like. It is safe to say that most designers spend most of t...
Improving Usability For Screen Reader Users
Simply ensuring your website is accessible to screen reader users is unfortunately not enough to ensure these users can find what they're looking for in a reasonably quick and efficient manner. Even ...
Is Your Website Breaking The Law?
So let’s get straight to the point. Is your website breaking the law? Well, in October 2004 we reached the deadline of the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA), 1995 in which the DDA ordered service p...
Learning difficulties & web accessibility
Accessibility is about making it as easy as possible for all members of society to fully take part in that society. It is about removing barriers. It is about inclusion and empowerment. It is about c...
Separate Text-Only Version? No Thanks!
In an attempt to make their sites accessible to all, more and more websites are now offering text-only versions of their sites. With the huge number of inaccessible websites out there, any attempt to...
The Bread And Butter Of Website Accessibility
The main reason webmasters fail to make their websites accessible is because they don’t understand the concept of an "accessible website" in the first place. Lets admit it, when the buzzword accessib...
The Problem With Automated Accessibility Testing Tools
An automated accessibility tool is a piece of software which can test a web page, or even an entire website, for accessibility. Automated accessibility tools are useful because they can save you a hu...
Usability For Older Web Users
According to the 2001 UK census (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2287650.stm), the UK now has more people aged over 60 than under 16. It also revealed that there are now 1.1 million people aged over 85...
Using the Web Accessibility Toolbar
Testing a website for accessibility can be a time-consuming and laborious process. The free Web Accessibility Toolbar can do most of the hard work for you though and is an indispensable tool for anyo...
Web Accessibility - The Law and The Opportunity
“What are my legal obligations in (the UK, Ireland, Australia, or the US) regarding web accessibility?” This or some variation of it is one of the most common questions heard in this business. If pos...
Web Accessibility For Screen Magnifier Users
The needs of screen magnifier users are overlooked when implementing web accessibility on to a website. Screen magnifiers are used by partially sighted web users to increase the size of on-screen ele...
Website Accessibility – Why it Matters
"The power of the web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect." Tim Berners-Lee, Director of W3C. The article covers: • What is website accessibili...
Website Content & Usability
Writing for the web is totally different to writing for printed matter. We tend to scan content on the web hunting for the information we're after, as opposed to reading word-for-word. As a result of...
What Could Be Worse Than Your Viewers Not Seeing Your Site Display Properly?
What if they never get to your site to see it? If you want your site listed on search engines then make sure that you have correct HTML code. Many search engines cannot properly catalog or index a si...
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