Accessibility

 

Accessibility

Accessibility A crucial factor in the development of your website is ensuring everyone can view your website. We think it is important not to limit your potential customer base by excluding people from your site. In recent years, Web Accessibility has become a hot topic in web development circles, and for good reason.

Careful consideration has to be given to how well your website works with different web technologies, from different web browser software and different operating systems, to search engine spiders (see our page on Search Engine Optimisation), to screen readers for the visually impared and other assistive technology, and also how well people with different requirements (the partially sighted, colour-blind etc) can use your site.

Accessibility This isnt necessarily easy to achieve, and can take a great deal of careful consideration, planning, knowledge, experience, and effort. PumpkinPie.net pride ourselves on ensuring that all our recent sites are fully accessible, cross-platform, and have features to support disabled access.

Laws in the UK, Europe, the USA and worldwide require organisations to ensure equal access and opportunity towards people with disabilities, and this extends to the internet. The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 in the UK, and Section 508 in the US, both contain legislation to this effect, as well as practical guidelines on how this should be achieved.