Web Access Centre

"For me being online is everything. It's my hi-fi, my source of income, my supermarket, my telephone. It's my way in."
Lynn Holdsworth, screen reader user, Web Developer and Programmer

The Web Access Centre provides information and advice on making your website accessible to everyone. This includes people with sight problems, hearing, mobility and cognitive impairments, as well as those using older browsers and slow, dial-up connections, or newer technologies such as mobiles and PDAs.

You'll find technical, design and editorial guidance, plus information on testing, standards, case studies, articles and resources.

Check out the WAC blog to find out what's happening in the accessibility world and what the team are up to.

For more bespoke and in-depth support we offer a range of consultancy services:

Audits - we offer a range of website accessibility audits: See it Right, See it Right: UseAbility, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 1.0) Single, Double or Triple A, or a combination of WCAG and See it Right. We can audit an existing site to help you identify work which needs to be done on the accessibility of the site, or carry out a rolling audit as you develop a new site or redesign a site, to help you keep it on track with regard to accessibility. We also offer maintenance checks for sites that have already been made accessible.

Training - you can join us on one of our regular open training courses, or we can design and run a bespoke, in-house training course for your company. We cover a wide range of issues, including strategy, design and coding techniques, testing and maintenance, legal requirements and the business benefits of putting accessibility at the heart of your web strategy.

Consultancy - we can work with you in face-to-face meetings and provide email and phone support to enable you not only to build and maintain an accessible website, but also to produce accessibility policies, accessibility statements, editorial guidelines for your content authors and other documentation.

Got a question? Then email us at webaccess@rnib.org.uk or give us a call on 020 7391 2178.

Content author: webeditor@rnib.org.uk

Last updated: 08/04/2008 18:38