accessible?
With the advent of the Disabled access laws (DDA) in the UK, not ensuring your web presence is accessible to the disabled can now be seen as discrimination much like places of business needing to install ramps for wheelchair access, business web sites have to be created and coded in a certain way to ensure they meet these web standards and compatibility with software like speech browsers.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is charged with compiling these rules and making sure the web is accessible to all, members of this group include Tim Berners Lee the inventor of the modern world wide web.
Most sites these days despite these laws and regulations coming in are not compliant meaning many sites are still difficult for some to use making them less accessible to some of your audience.
Dice23 can create DDA compliant and accessible web sites without compromising design. Not only is the upshot of this better exposure for your site however it also means search engines can better deal with your site when it comes to indexing it which could help your site to a better position.
These accessibility rules apply to anyone offering a service over the web however, with the latest advances in web desing there is no excuse fo any site not now to be accessible.
