Webstore: its about being accessible
All Webstore sites are built to comply with the following W3C quality assurance standards, ensuring your WebStore will accessible to the widest possible audience and perform optimally across all of the most popular web browsers of today.
We strongly advise all customers who alter their web site's content to use the free W3C markup validation service and try to keep their web site valid. We can offer advice on this if you need more help.
Equality Act 2010
We provide our customers with guidance on web accessibility issues that need to be considered when providing internet based products and services. Web site owners should be aware that the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA), which came into force in 1999 and updated in 2004 which has now been repealed and replaced by the Equality Act 2010 , has the power to enforce businesses to develop accessible websites.
“refusing to provide, or deliberately not providing, to the disabled person nay service which he provides, or is prepared to provide, to members of the public... it is unlawful to provide a lower standard of service to disabled persons...”
Disability Discrimination Act (DDA)The implication of this act is if you have a non-accessible web site, and you could have made it accessible 'without altering the nature of the service', you may be taken to court for discrimination.
Conformance to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 covers a wide range of recommendations for making Web content more accessible. Following these guidelines will make content accessible to a wider range of people with disabilities, including blindness and low vision, deafness and hearing loss, learning disabilities, cognitive limitations, limited movement, speech disabilities, photosensitivity and combinations of these. Following these guidelines will also often make your Web content more usable to users in general.
If you feel you need help or advice on any of the above issues please contact us.
