Accessibility
People with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with an Omnium website. This also benefits others, including older people, people using non-standard browsers such as mobile phones and PDAs. We want to make sure your website is availabile to the widest possible audience.
- financial gains due to increased potential market share, better search engine positions, increased usability and higher conversion rates
- reducing risk of legal action - inaccessible websites are illegal under the Disability Discrimination Act. It's unlikely that anybody would take action against a small business owner, but it's possible.
- public relations benefits of demonstrating social responsibility
All Omnium websites have the potential to meet level triple-A of the Website Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 1.0 AAA). All Omnium websites meet level A of the Website Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 1.0 A) as standard. All library templates are tested in a range of web browsers and we're in the process of adding mobile versions.
- automatically uses text equivalants for non-text content
- uses label elements on all form controls
- uses CSS where possible to display design elements such as colours and graphics
- tested with javascript and CSS disabled
- adjustable font sizes through the browser, not on-site javascript
Until the most popular web browsers support CSS layout techniques better, we will continue to use minimal table layouts.
