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What is Web Accessibility?

Web Accessibility first came to the forefront with the passing of the DDA 1995 (Disability Discrimination Act). In extremely brief terms the act set out goals that all services should and would be made accessible to everyone, regardless of any disability that they may have.

In 1994, a year prior to the Act being passed by government, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was founded with the sole purpose to building a consensus around Web technologies. W3C pursues the mission of a totally accessible web community by creating standards, recommendations, and software and discussion platforms.

Why should you care?

OK, other that the legal requirements of an accessible website, we should also be focusing on the massive benefits that come alone for the ride. By making the pages accessible we are potentially increasing our audience by 16% (10 million users) in the UK alone. By making our pages accessible we are also reducing our cross browser compatibility issues of the past. Last but by no means least accessible pages potentially increase our page ranking because search engines such as Google can see the content easier.

Why do we care?

Rake Mark Solutions are very proud of the work we do, and driving forward towards a better web community for all users has got to be a good thing.

Our developers will continue to research, learn and implement as new standards and guidelines as they are set to achieve the best results possible for you, our clients.

Contact us to see how we can increase your website accessibility