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Disability Discrimination Act

The Disability Discrimination Act requires that businesses provide their disabled users with the same levels of service and availability as others. Much of the initial attention regarding the DDA was focused on physical features of office buildings  for example stairs and doors.

However the DDA also covers a business's website. It requires that business websites are accessible to all users including:
  • The visually impaired
  • The physically handicapped
  • Users with colour differentiation problems
  • Users of text only browsers, for example "screen readers" aimed at the blind.
Flatpack Software's team can evaluate your web site or software applications and report on their status relating to the DDA.

If required we can also rebuild them to better fit the DDA requirements. This also has the added advantage that accessible and DDA-compliant web sites are also more readable to search-engines. Making a website more accessible to humans will typically also cause an increase in visits from new users who find your site via search engines.

Benefits

Good PR - running a legally compliant website shows that your business cares about its users.
Search engine friendly - accessible web sites are automatically more search engine friendly which helps boost your ranking
Faster loading - accessible web sites are load quicker providing a better user experience
Future proof - accessible websites display content in a readable format on portal devices such as Blackberries, Palmpilots, phones and PDAs. Viewing websites on portable devices is becoming increasingly popular.

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