E-Accessibility Consultancy Services and Web Accessibility Benefits

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E-Accessibility Consultancy

Our expert e-accessibility team can help your business in assessing your website’s accessibility and usability problems. This asessment provides you with suggestions to improve its accessibility and usability features. By making your website more accessible and usable your business will be able expand its reach in the market and increase its visibility and most importantly revenue.

Without accessibility features on your website your business would potentially loose revenue from this particular segment. Moreover by providing good accessible features on your website your business gets the chance to show that it follows ethical guidelines of the government with regards to trade practices. This would help in generating goodwill and reputation of your business in the ever so competitive marketplace.

We have identified some of the benefits that a web accessibility organisation can produce and achieve. These benefits are distributed into four different sections or factors. These are Financial, Social, Legal and Technical.

Financial Benefits

Usability and Accessibility increases potential market share by making web accessible and usable to more users and specifically the inclusion of disable users who have a spending power of 120bn in UK.

Return-on-Investment (A Positive Impact)
Reduce website maintenance costs
Web Accessibility results in increased website usage which leads to increase in audience which will further provide greater e-commerce use since it will allow to process online transactions and provide an opportunity for both users with and without disabilities.
Improved Search Engine Rankings
Increased positive image as it will enable the organisation to present good practice in their corporate culture and social responsibility by providing equal opportunity to disable users. Organisation social responsiveness and positive image results in financial gain by increased sales and customer loyalty.
Improved Usability: Websites which are accessible contributes to enhanced usability to both people with and without disabilities by providing better design and navigation which in turn provide positive impact and hence, return visitors.
Improved Findability: since accessible website leads to increased exposure of content both internally and externally to search engines.
Costs savings and effectiveness as it decreases the cost of maintenance, legal obligations and actions.
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Legal Benefits

It is a legal requirement to adhere with the UK Legislations, Policies and standards with regard to web accessibility. Non-Compliance can lead to the legal risks, hence putting organisation reputation in question and thereby creating negative impact. Also it will lead to high legal costs and figures.

Legislations in UK

Disability Discrimination Act 2005
Special Educational Needs and Disability Act 2001

Jurisdictions in UK

E-Government Unit
Disability Rights Commission
PAS78 (Publicly Available Specification)
Disability Policy Division of the Department of Work and Pensions

Standards

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) guidelines and specifications
W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 1.0)
Complying to the Legislations and Policies reduces legal risks
Considerations must be accomplished by different type of organisations (Government, Educational, Corporate, NGO's)
Early incorporation of web accessibility can be more effective significantly since the future policies which are in development can be applied to an organisation.

Web Accessibility can reduce the impact of 'Digital Divide' which are associated with economic and social barriers for people with or without disabilities, in the use of computers and Information and Communication Technologies. Moreover, e-accessibility also provides huge benefit to older people who might experience changes in their vision, hearing and memory abilities at an older stage of their life.

Web Accessibility is a corporate social responsibility for any organisation having a web presence.
E-Accessibility contributes to good society and environment as a whole.
Providing web accessibility is essential for giving equal opportunity to people with disabilities
Accessible web not only increases effective and efficient information access, but also expand the level of opportunities it contributes to employment, interaction and communication..
Website interoperability without a mouse can benefit people who have difficulty using a mouse.
Proper accessible website with clear and simple language, navigation system and good design with image maps can provide access to people with learning difficulties, low bandwidth users and new web users.

Technical Benefits

Costs savings for accessible end-to-end solutions since it will impact the percentage of the cost when accessibility is incorporated in the beginning which is smaller to the percentage of the overall website costs. Also, initial consideration of accessibility results in cost reduction of the accessibility evaluation, incorporating accessibility policies and procedures and upgrading issues

W3C WCAG leads to high quality websites
Reduced development and maintenance time
Reduce the need for additional servers
Increase in the website download speed
Increased web interoperability
Enable web content on different configurations such as devices, web browsers and operating systems
Compatibility with advanced and future coming technologies for organisations (such as content re-use)
Compatible for cascading style sheets migration

Accessibility consulting will make your website 'cross browser' compatible. This means that the website becomes suitable for viewing in any of the existing browsers. Different browsers existing these days interpret webpages in different ways. This leads to significant alterations when viewed with different browsers.Webmirer's team cannot remove those anomalies completely as these anomalies are of inherent nature of the browsers. But at the same time, we can definitely make it in such a way that the effects of those anomalies are at a minimal.

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