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Accessibility

Websites accessible to all: legal, just, and successful

Nearly 2 million people are blind and partially sighted in the UK (RNIB, 2010). About 9 million are deaf, including 55% of people over 60 (RNID, 2010). Well over 7 million are estimated to have other communication support needs (Scottish Government, 2007). Close on 4 million people have hand or arm problems that could affect their use of computers.


Although these conditions might co-exist in an individual, that's still an awful lot of people who have the same rights to access the internet as everyone else. This isn't just social justice; websites are legally obliged not to exclude people on the basis of disability (Disability Discrimination Act, 2005).


For a business, not enabling people with disabilities to access their website is clearly commercial suicide: you want it used by as many people as possible, and this is a very eager market.


Kalexiko sites all embrace web accessibility standards, as set out by W3C, the internet governing body.

Our websites can be navigated and read by everyone, regardless of their disability, location, experience and technology.


We make sure, for example, that sites are properly coded so they can be interpreted by all browsers, search engines and aids like screen readers. Just making all the titles look bigger on the page doesn't help — the coding has to mark them out as titles. Other accessibility features can be coded, with the non-disabled user unaware. Users can always change features like font size and colour, if it helps them.


Users can always change features like font size and colour, if it helps them.


And consistent design across the website, with the use of good, simple copy always helps everyone.


None of this is rocket science, all of it is sense, and it's always what you get with Kalexiko.