Accessibility

If your audience can't see your site then what's the point of having it? Harsh but true!

Is your key target audience whiz kids & high tech business folk? Or are they hard of sight and rely on software tools to read your website to them?

We are committed to accessibility, committed to user experience and committed to the debate on how to achieve a balance. We have extensive experience of delivering websites to Government, RNIB and W3C accessibility standards. We are experienced at working with clients to achieve their objectives of being WAI-A, AA and AAA compliant and can work to a comprehensive set of web development standards. Often though content development has to be a balance between user experience and accessibility conformance.

Appius recommends the generation of an Accessibility Approach Document in the envisioning phase of a major project where consideration of user experience, technology options and audience distribution can be assessed and agreed. Design & production of HTML is then executed with both manual and automated validation methods being employed in an iterative approach. Example tools include:

• W3C Validation tools
• Cross Browser Validation
• Cross Platform Validation
• Assistive technologies validation
• User Testing