Accessibility
All web sites that are owned by UK businesses need to comply with the Disability Discrimination Act - The DDA. E Media Design meet and go beyond these guide lines.
The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 - Word (the DDA), was introduced with the intention of comprehensively tackling the discrimination which many disabled people face. The part of the DDA that states web sites must be made accessible came into force on 1 October 1999 and the Code of Practice for this section of the Act was published on 27 May 2002.
Accessibility - what browser?
You are most likely reading this information using a browser and navigating this web site with your mouse, works for you, right?
Imagine, just for a moment, that your vision is impaired or perhaps you have some other disability. Maybe you can’t use a standard browser, or a mouse and perhaps you cannot use a keyboard in the conventional way, what then? Accessibility. An accessible web site can also be read or viewed as it is meant to be in a wide range of devices and medias; it will also open your business to areas that a non-accessible web site cannot even hope to reach.
A disabled person can make a claim against you if your website makes it impossible or unreasonably difficult to access information and services. If you have not made reasonable adjustments and cannot show that this failure is justified, then you may be liable under the Act, and may have to pay compensation and be ordered by a court to change your site.
For further information on web accessibility and the DDA please follow the link below.