Accesibility is becoming a major problem for businesses in the UK, mainly beacuse they do not know about the guidelines and the legal position.

Below we give a a definitive version of the requirements as we understand them.

If you are not sure whether your website is accessible then please contact us and we can tell you if you are BREAKING THE LAW.

To ensure that your website is universally accessible, the following WCAG 1.0 Guidelines should be considered and implemented:

• Provide equivalent alternatives to auditory and visual content - Provide content that, when presented to the your user, conveys essentially the same function or purpose as auditory or visual content, e.g., text summaries or transcripts
• Do not rely on colour alone - Ensure that your text and graphics are understandable when viewed without colour
• Use mark up and style sheets and do so properly - Mark up documents with the proper structural elements; control your presentation with style sheets rather than with HTML presentation elements and attributes
• Clarify natural language usage - Mark up documents with the proper structural elements; control your presentation with style sheets rather than with HTML presentation elements and attributes
• Create tables that transform gracefully - Ensure that your tables have necessary mark up to be transformed by accessible browsers and other software