Website Accesibility
A common misconception is that the current accessibility legislation is aimed solely at the disabled: this is not the case.
The range of disabilities that present most problems to using the web:
• Visual impairment 
• Colour blindness
• Dyslexia
• Inability to use a normal mouse
Websites need to be designed and structured to ensure that all users can both understand and use the site.
• About two million people in the UK self define as having a sight problem or seeing difficulty (www.rnib.org.uk).
• Every day another 100 people start to lose their sight (this figure is based on the average number of people registered as blind or partially sighted every day).
• Approximately 1 in 12 men and 1 in 200 women suffer from some sort of defective colour vision
• (www.iee.org/News/PressRel/z20jul2004.cfm).
• Somewhere between four and five percent of the population are dyslexic. It is estimated that there are about 375,000 school pupils in the UK with dyslexia and a total of some two million people who are severely affected (www.dyslexiaaction.org.uk).
Your site should comply with legislation with emphasis on the following:
• add new website pages
• modify text to have complete control over size, colour, style
• insert pictures
• include external hyperlinks
• add tables
• define, monitor and change your keywords to ensure the search engines can find your website
• track the historical changes to the text on your website
• use optional multilanguage functionality (if required)
• grant various level users access to the CMS
For more information, please contact us.
Sincerely,
HeadChannel Ltd
www.headchannel.co.uk
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