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Collective ID web design Edinburgh specialise in developing great websites, brands and printed materials for good companies.

Whether you're for profit or not-for-profit; in Scotland or outside the UK, we can help you with:

  • Branding
  • Web Site Design
  • Content Management Systems
  • E-commerce Web Sites
  • Web Site Accessibility compliance
  • Flash Animation
  • 3D Modeling
  • Brochures, Annual Reports
  • Conference Displays

 

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Making web sites accessible

Why accessibility?

  • To make your service accessible to people with disabilities
  • To ensure that your web site is accessible on a range of different devices
  • So you don't miss out on a lucrative market
  • To comply with the UK law

Disability Discrimination Act 1995

People with certain disabilities may find it difficult or impossible to manipulate a mouse, while people with visual impairments may depend on assistive software to interpret the web page.

Disabled users of web sites can use the Act to force providers of services to make changes to their web sites in order to make their services accessible.

Under the Act any organisation that supplies goods and services is required to make reasonable adjustments in order to ensure that they are not dicriminating against disabled users.

The Disability Rights Commission recommends in its April 2004 report The Web, Access and Inclusion for disabled People, that web sites conform to the Web Accessibility Initiative's AA standard.

Web sites like this one exceed this recommendation and conform to the WAI's AAA standard.

From October 2004 the Act applies to all businesses and organisations, whatever their size.

Collective ID can help ensure that your site is accessible for people with disabilities.

Different Devices

Growth of the use of mobile devices such as mobile phones and PDAs to access the Internet is almost exponential. Users require quick download times, web pages that are usable without relying entirely on graphic content, and that 'collapse' elegantly.

Market Share

Users with disabilities, taken together with users of mobile devices, represent a significant share of the UK market. Collective ID can help ensure that you don't miss out on their valuable business.

  • There are 38,000 people in Scotland who are blind or partially sighted.*
  • In Edinburgh alone there are around 1600 people who are registered as visually impaired*
  • There are many tens of thousands more users of PDAs and mobile phones.

* Statistics Release: Registered Blind and Partially Sighted Persons, Scotland 2003

 

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