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05
Mar
Ensuring your website can be used by everyone is not simply about law and ethics, it makes great business sense.
For many years businesses have been required by law to ensure their premises are disability friendly. In particular retail facilities must ensure appropriate placement of lifts, toilets, hand rails and ramps so that anybody in a wheelchair can enjoy the same shopping experience as those on foot.
There is already legislation in place to ensure businesses maximise the usability of their website for those with disabilities.
It stands to reason that your website, the digital representation of your business, should abide by the same laws and ethical codes as your bricks and mortar namesake. And not surprisingly it does. There is already legislation in place to ensure businesses maximise the usability of their website for those with disabilities.
28
Nov
You’d be surprised just how different your website looks to other people.
According to the tome of all knowledge, Wikipedia - usability is defined as a term denoting the ease with which people can employ a particular tool, or other man made object to achieve a particular goal.
Usability is not a huge problem for many publicists since most mainstream media is published through highly standardised mediums - such as televisions. A news reader does not have to concern himself with how his jaw will look on a variety of different TVs since the world’s televisions behave in a very similar manner.
The world’s browsers perform in a variety of ways, that are often so peculiar as to render a website entirely inoperable
Unfortunately this is not true for web designers. The world’s browsers perform in a variety of ways, that are often so peculiar as to render a website entirely inoperable - even though it looked fine when you designed it.
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