Web accessibility guidelines creation
Webcredible can develop a set of accessibility guidelines and standards for your site to adhere to. The guidelines:
- Set the standards for every aspect of website development across your entire organisation
- Are specifically related to your websites and their unique requirements and constraints
- Are straight-to-the-point and tell you exactly what to do
Webcredible has given us superb accessibility advice and training. These have made a material contribution to the success of our website projects.
Carolyn Clarke, EDF Energy (more testimonials)
How to use the accessibility guidelines
Our accessibility guidelines document is essential for anyone looking to quality assure all web development projects for accessibility. The process for you typically works like this:
- You commission web development work (either in-house or externally)
- As part of the brief, the developers must ensure all web pages conform to the guidelines
- Throughout development, the developers follow the simple step-by-step accessibility guidelines
- You check their work using the straightforward test criteria outlined for every single guideline
The document is jargon-free, straight-to-the point and written in an informative, 'chatty' style. It assumes no prior technical knowledge. For each accessibility guideline the following is included:
- A priority level (high. medium, low)
- A concise explanation as to why it's important
- Practical guidance for how to implement it
- Guidance on how to test for the guideline
About the accessibility guidelines
Why we're different
Webcredible does things slightly differently to (and much better than) our competitors:
- We know more than just usability and accessibility
- We're experts in what we do
- We're passionate about our work
- We don't have 'project managers'
- You'll enjoy working with us
- We believe in knowledge sharing so you'll learn a lot from us
Find out in more detail about why we're different.
The guidelines are based on our own unique in-house research, as well as the guidelines set down by the W3C (versions 1 and 2 of WCAG). Additionally, our accessibility guidelines adhere to specialist advice and recommendations as outlined by the EU, DDA, RNIB, BSI PAS 78 and DRC.
The accessibility guidelines cover all special needs groups, such as blind, partially sighted, deaf, learning difficulties, the elderly, dyslexic and mobility impaired users.
The accessibility guidelines document is broken up into the following sections:
- Images
- Text size & customisation
- Headings
- Lists
- Links
- Forms
- HTML code
- Design
- Content
- JavaScript
You can download a brief extract from a sample guidelines document.
The document has a summary section at the front listing all accessibility guidelines by section. The rest of the document contains full information on why the guideline's important, how to implement it and also how to test for it.
What next?
Please contact us by phone on 0870 242 6095 or by e-mail at accessibility at webcredible.co.uk. We'll discuss your web accessibility audit needs and requirements with no pushy sales pitch and no obligation to you.