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We recognise the importance for you in Burton of having a website that is legally accessible by all users regardless of their disability, if they are disabled. All of our websites are legally accessible.
The UK Disability Rights Commission found that 81% of web sites that it tested failed even the most basic of the accessibility guidelines.
It also makes sense to make your websites audience as wide as possible, not just geographically. You wouldn't try to appeal to just Burton if selling products online, there are millions of users with disabilities in the UK, be it a visual impairment or a physical disablement so why wouldn't you want a slice of this market.
The Sydney Olympic Committee were successfully sued by a blind man for $20,000 aus (£8,000) because of the poor accessibility of their website
Acumen's specialists provide various accessibility services for you in Burton:
Also known as Testing • Tests • Reviewing • Reviews • Evaluating • Evaluates • Evaluations • Audits • Appraisals • Inspections • Examinations
Highlighting any areas & issues within your website and explaining how they can be resolved, we will discuss these thoroughly with you. Other factors to consider in accessibility are computer and operating system type e.g. Mac, PC or Linux, device/browser other than the standard or user may be using a dial up internet connection.
Your web site will be tested against:
Your accessibility report is provided as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file that is emailed to you. We can also provide this in other file formats as you may require and even as a printed paper report though this will delay your receiving your report promptly and will incur charges for postage and packing.
the Royal National Institute of the Blind have considered taking up legal cases against organisations in the UK with regard to the accessibility of their websites under the DDA
Our websites comply to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines of the World Wide Web Consortium, which are endorsed by the Royal National Institute for the Blind.
All accessibility priorities & levels can be adhered to if required from the legally minimum standard Level A priority 1 through Level AA priority 2 and upto the maximum Level AAA priority 3 guidelines. We adhere to the Disability Rights Commission Disability Discrimination Act of 1995 with our clients websites keeping them legal. As of 1999 this act became effective for any company that provides its services on a web site.
The use of Access Keys on websites allows users to access areas of your site without the use of a mouse and by their keyboard alone by doing the following:
Internet Explorer 6 on PC: hold down ALT and then the Access Key to select the option, you can then release all keys and then press Enter to access.
Firefox and Netscape 6 (Mozilla) on PC: hold down ALT and then the Access Key to access the option.
Netscape 6 and Internet Explorer 5 on Mac: hold down CTRL and then the Access Key to access the option.
An example of this are the Accesskeys used on our website.
All of our websites use text which is resizable so users with poor eye site can adjust it to suit themselves. Try it by following the options for your browser below:
To change the size of text in Internet Explorer select the view menu then click on text size then select the option you require.
In Firefox press and hold the Ctrl key then press + or - to increase or decrease the text size. Ctrl and 0 will make your current text size the standard size for your browser.
You can also hold down the Ctrl key & scroll with the wheel of your mouse.
Our websites have tab indexs, so by pressing the tab key you will sequentially go through all the links on each web page.
Our websites, as well as being legally accessible, are also designed to conform to the W3C web standards for valid Hypertext Mark-up Language and Cascading Style Sheets. Our site is also 508 valid (accessibility standard for the USA).
Please contact acumen with any questions you may have.
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