Accessibility

We have tried to ensure that this website is as accessible as possible. If you are having a problem please contact us, and we will do our best to help. Check web accessibility on-line.

Is accessibility relevant to you?

From October 2004, the Disability Discrimination Act, 1995 (DDA) requires service providers to ensure the services they provide are accessible to people with disabilities. The DDA requirement applies to services delivered via the web and it applies to all businesses and all public sector organisations.
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Bobby

We specialise in designing web sites to meet the Bobby Section AAA/508 and WAI Content Accessibility Guidelines AAA, the highest level. Accessibility focused design also ensures web sites that are useable for the rest of your customers. Bobby checks the source code of a program against the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Page Authoring Guidelines, as well as reflecting the Page Authoring Group's latest revisions to these guidelines. Although Bobby cannot guarantee total accessibility it goes a long way towards making it easier and more efficient for people with a wide variety of disabilities to access information online.
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Accessibility and this website

We believe accessibility for all users is an important issue and has been hugely neglected by the development community. This website has been designed to be:

W3C XHTML v1.0 validated
W3C CSS v2.0 validated
W3C - WAI compliant to "AAA" standard
Bobby - compliant to level "AAA" standard
Bobby – compliant to US 508 level

This site uses CSS, XHTML 1.0 Strict and conforms with level AAA of the WCAG
If you have a problem in accessing a page on this site please contact us.

Accessibility has benefits!

Ensuring compliance with these standards has many benefits and we recommend these changes to all our clients, the key benefits we have found include:

Better accessibility & positioning on search engines
Better accessibility for all users on all browsers
Better accessibility for the disabled (inline with the Disability Discrimination Act 1995)
Smaller faster pages to download
Quick and easy to make future design changes to the site.

This site uses CSS, XHTML 1.0 Strict and conforms with level AAA of the WCAG
If you have a problem in accessing a page on this site please contact us.

W3C-WAI

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was created in October 1994 to lead the World Wide Web to its full potential, partly by creating some common standards to ensure interoperability. This commitment includes promoting a high degree of usability for people with disabilities. This web site has been designed to conform to W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 level AAA (the highest level).

The 'Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0' (WCAG) is a W3C specification providing guidance on accessibility of Web sites for people with disabilities. Developed by the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative (W3C-WAI), the specification contains fourteen guidelines which are general principles of accessible design. These guidelines not only make pages more accessible to people with disabilities, they make them more accessible to all users, including those using different technologies to view the pages.
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Accessibility levels

Legally, you achieve web accessibility determined on how your site measures up against the de-facto W3C-WAI standards. These standards point to 3 levels of web accessibility:
1. A - Which legally you must comply with.
2. AA - Which you should achieve; or your site will still be inaccessible to a large number of people.
3. AAA - Which should be aspired towards as far as is possible.
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Validated

This web site has been validated and conforms to W3C Recommendations for XHTML and CSS. The site can be viewed in most current browsers and was tested on Internet Explorer, Mozilla/Netscape and Opera.