VA Briefing 86 – Making your website for everyone

This briefing takes a look at the different groups of users and technologies you will need to consider, and offers guidelines and tips to help you create an accessible website. Web accessibility is a much discussed topic at the moment. This is partly because since part III of the Disability Discrimination Act came into force in 2004, service providers are having to consider making reasonable adjustments to the way they deliver their services. This is so that everyone, including disabled people, can use them. Creating an ‘accessible website’ addresses this concern directly, as websites are a service that organisations offer. It also ensures that your site takes into account the many and ever expanding ways all people access websites, be it through an assistive device or even a mobile phone.

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This Briefing was published in March 2005. The content and resources were applicable at the time of going to press. Much of the information contained in Briefings is generic but some facts and contacts details may change and /or go out of date. You are therefore advised to double check the currency of the content in this document.