At Underwoods our aim is to make our website as accessible as
possible to the widest range of visitors and customers.
This
means considering the specific needs of those with visual or physical
impairments, learning difficulties and other forms of disability. In
addition it means having an understanding of different browser
technologies. We produce our sites to meet current best practices and
guidelines.
The benefits of this approach:
-
Sites are available to as wide an audience as possible and across a
variety of technologies. They will also be accessible to future devices.
- Sites meet guidelines for those users who may have impairments and difficulties using the web.
- Sites load quicker and use less bandwidth.
How do we do it?
We follow what are known as ‘Web
Standards’. In the past many web browsers were released that did not
follow a common standard for interpreting web pages; they focused on
their own proprietory code. The result was that we had to sometimes make
several different versions of our site for all the various browsers and
there would often be inconsistencies across these sites.
In recent years the makers of web browsers have adopted and brought in
support for an open set of standards. These standards are laid down by
the W3C, a not for profit organisation, that oversees the development
of the web.
There is now a move towards this standard
based approach method of building websites within our industry and Underwoods is proud to be working in this way.
Further information:
Royal National Institute of the Blind
Web Accessibility and UK Law
Last updated:
Mon, 16 Jan 2006, 14:04