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Website DDA Compliance

What is the DDA?

DDA stands for Disability Discrimination Act (1995 & 2005). This act makes it illegal to:-

• keep from a disabled person a product or service that is available to a member of the public.
• make it impossible or unreasonably difficult for a disabled person to access the service or product.
• Give a different standard of service to a disabled person.

Look here for the bit of the Act that applies to Website DDA Compliance

All of this applies to your website and, if it's inaccessible to a disabled person, leaves you breaking the law.

How can you get website DDA Compliance?

You are required by the DDA to make 'reasonable adjustments' to your website to get compliance. This is fairly straight forward but is much easier to when creating a website from scratch than updating an existing web site.

We work hard to follow the guidelines of the Web Accessibility Initiative. This is a set of guidelines that, when applied, will ensure that a disabled people can access your web site.

As a general rule of thumb

If a website meets the web accessibility initiative guidelines. then you have website DDA compliance.

What do we do to your website?

To get website DDA compliance we apply a series of best practices to any sites we create from scratch

• We include a description of every picture or graphic on a site.
• We use links that make sense rather than generic 'click here' type links.
• We carefully organise a page using headings, lists, paragraphs and a consistent structure.
• We use cascading style sheets for page layout and formatting. This separates the page content and layout and means that disabled people can chose how much of the visual aspects of the site they need)
• We don't use frames in a website. (those pages where bits of the page can scroll independently from others. These don't do your search engine visibility any favours either)
• We don't use tables to lay out a web page (this is a very common practice. It makes page layout much easier but makes the page a nightmare for disabled people to access)

More Information

An introduction to Web Accessibility

Best Practice in Web Design

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