Website Design - Accessibility
Website accessibility simply means giving people with disabilities (through sight-impairment, colour-blindness, or decreased motor skills) the ability to perceive, understand, navigate and interact with your website. Providing equal access and equal opportunity to people with disabilities is not only required by law, it is an important aspect of ensuring websites are accessible by all members of our community.
We create websites which employ the following accessibility features:
- pages are coded for electronic text readers, screen magnifiers or enlarged browser settings
- colours are used for decoration only, rather than to communicate nuances of meaning
- keyboard shortcuts are provided for ease of navigation and make the pages usable without a mouse
- all images have text alternatives (ALT attributes), unless they are purely decorative
- text uses relative text size so it can be enlarged or reduced using the text size options available in visual browsers
- pages are organised to be fully functional, even with JavaScript turned off
- pages are designed to maintain good contrast, even without style sheets
- pages are designed with separate cascading style sheets, so they can be replaced by user-defined style sheets
- site follows the guidelines of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and W3C's Accessibility Guidelines
- source materials are organised in an orderly fashion to ensure logical tab ordering