Accessibility

Accessibility
Web accessibility is more than just good practice. For many companies, organisations, including governments worldwide, it is now a legal requirement.

Over 10% of the online population has a disability (750 million people worldwide). According to iCAN, people with disabilities have a discretionary income of more than £100 billion pounds (UK Sterling). So ask yourself if your business can afford to ignore accessibility.

Making your online business accessible to all individuals, including those with disabilities, demonstrates good human awareness, reduces the risk of legal battles, costly settlements, unfavourable publicity and will help you comply with soon to be regulated guidelines and best practices.

Non-compliance with guidelines, worldwide legislation and best practices, discriminates against people with disabilities who should be able to access your online business, and if not, can negatively impact your corporate brand.

At BlueBox Creative we are committed to ensuring that everyone can access the information we provide.

The vast majority of pages on the BlueBox Creative website are 'AAA Bobby' Approved. Please click the logo to the left to find out more information on 'Bobby Approval'.

We build pages in XHTML and to the highest standards

Our websites are CSS 2.0 validated 

BlueBox Creative are committed to ensuring that all content on our websites is acceptable and safe for children to view. Therefore, we are committed to complying with the 'Internet Content Rating Association'.

Our website incorporates ACCESSKEY functionality. These keys can be used to navigate the site quickly and easily. Simply hold down Alt, then press the corresponding letter, release and then press return. The ACCESSKEY functionality used on this site is as follows:

Alt + 1 = Go to Homepage
Alt + 2 = Go to Services
Alt + 3 = Go to BlueBox OMS
Alt + 4 = Go to Portfolio
Alt + 5 = Go to Clients
Alt + 6 = Go to Contact Us 

BlueBox Creative has worked towards complying with the 'web content accessibility guidelines' produced by the world wide web consortium (w3c) whilst designing this website.

Below is a selection of the guidelines we have complied with:

• Provide a text equivalent for every non text element (e.g. via "alt", "longdesc", or in element content). This includes images, graphical representations of text such as symbols, image map regions, animations (e.g. animated gifs).
• Ensure that all information conveyed with colour is also available without colour.
• Organise documents so they may be read without style sheets. For example, when an html document is rendered without associated style sheets, it must still be possible to read the document.
• Clearly identify the target of each link.
• Create a logical tab order through links, form controls and objects.
• Provide keyboard shortcuts to important links, form controls and groups of form controls. 

BlueBox Creative has extensive experience in accessibility and the can assist you in becoming compliant for all internet users.

For a professional approach to your marketing needs ring +44 (0) 1534 859588 or contact us here.