How Accessible is Your Web Site?
Does your website meet the following needs:
- Is it easy and intuitive to use?
- Can you be contacted from every page?
- Are the pages search engine friendly?
- Can a blind person use your site with screenreader software?
- Can a non-mouse user tab through your site navigation?
If the answer to any of these is no or possibly not, then you may be excluding many of your potential customers. Your competitors web sites could be more accomodating.
What are the Benefits of an Accessible Website?
Apart from the obvious benefit of keeping within the law (the Disability Discrimination Act in the UK), an accessible web site has a number of advantages to your business:
- Search Engine Optimisation - improved rankings because Google and other search love standards based, well structured content
- Faster Loading by Browsers - important for customers using dial-up or slower broadband
- Ease of use - people don't stay long if they can't easily find what they need.
What Can You Do to Improve the Accessibility of Your Website
Contact me via email info@qm-consulting.co.uk and I will advise you on improvements that can be made. Many of these will be simple changes, some will be more complex. I can help you implement any changes to your existing web site or design and build you a new accessible web site.
Web Design Sutton Coldfield - About QM Consulting and Accessible Web
Accessible Web is a trading name of QM Consulting Ltd and it is a Sutton Coldfield web design agency, developing accessible web sites to help organisations , particularly in the Birmingham and Midlands areas, make effective use of their marketing budget.
Example Customers
WiRE - Women in Rural Enterprise - webmaster services since May 2007
Acacia Family Support - for mothers and their families affected by pre and post natal depression - designed and built website
Growing Through - helping children and families grow through divorce and bereavement - designed and built website
Womens Thoughts - designed and developed by ordinary women for ordinary women - webmaster services since August 2009
Derek Bell and Associates - Project Management Consultancy and Training. Webmaster services from October 2009.
