As our name attests, Accessible Computing, Inc. is founded on the belief that an ecommerce website, no matter how complex or basic, should be accessible to and usable by as many people as possible. Few website design firms in the greater Charlotte area, or in the entire country for that matter, have Accessible Computing's in-depth knowledge of, familiarity with and dedication to accessibility and usability.
The World Wide Web is moving toward having accessibility become the accepted (and possibly mandated) method of developing websites. So it's vital that you know about all aspects of accessibility and usability — and it's good to know that Accessible Computing is just an email or phone call away.
Here's where Accessible Computing gives your website an even bigger advantage. Simply put, the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) has established standards, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), that a website can follow which enables that website to be easily accessible to people with disabilities, such as the visually or the physically impaired.
Similarly, a website that is "Section 508 Compliant" meets the US Government's accessibility standards for the disabled. The Section 508 Compliance standards apply just to websites doing business with the government, but any website can adopt them — and would be smart to. Here's why: major search engines also favor accessible websites over those that aren't. Plus, your accessible website will also work better on PDAs, cell phones and other similar devices. And "silver surfers" will be much more satisfied using your accessible website over a non-accessible one.
Accessible Computing (our name says it all) has a deep understanding of every aspect of web accessibility and usability. And this gives you a decided advantage in creating an accessible website.
We'll help you learn, in just minutes, if your website is inadvertently excluding millions of people who are visually impaired or have some other disability. (Also important: if your website's not accessible, the search engines won't favor it — while they might be favoring your competition.)
Our prioritized checklist will let you know if your website can be used by a screen-reader for the visually-impaired visitors, or if it can accommodate other tools such as voice-activated or speaking browsers. And then we'll do full evaluation of the results, so we can determine precisely what your website needs to do to become far more accessible to millions of people — and those all-important search engines.
Accessible Computing will not only fully analyze your W3C WAI WCAG and Section 508 Compliance, but, just as important, we'll help remediate any compliance problems that we find. And we'll correct any and all W3C WAI WCAG and 508 Compliance issues quickly, economically and totally.
One of the biggest advantages of having Accessible Computing develop your accessible website is our Web Accessibility Training Program. Our accessibility experts will teach you how to maintain your website's accessibility — and continually benefit from having a website that major search engines and millions upon millions of visitors favor.
Imagine having some of the industry's most seasoned and proven experts on website accessibility at your fingertips. With the Accessible Computing Support Agreement, you'll have ready access — via email, phone and even on-premise visits — to accessibility and usability professionals who can answer virtually any question you have. Now that's a comforting thought.
The experts at Accessible Computing know the W3C WAI WCAG and Section 508 Guidelines inside and out, up and down. After all, we've been involved in making websites accessible for years (and hence our firm's name). We've even had a role in how the draft version of the W3C WAI WCAG version 2.0 was written. You could say our stamp is on it.
So you can feel confident that we know how to make sure your website not only abides by the industry guidelines, but is also fully accessible to millions of surfers who would otherwise skip visiting your website and buy their products somewhere else.
To find out how your website can be improved, request an analysis.
