Web Accessibility
Dragon Eye Design emphasizes clean, standards compliant coding practices which promote accessibility. Depending on what your national and/or state legislation dictates, your website may be required by law to accomodate disabled web users in much the same way as a physical place of business is required to provide reasonable access to its premises. Regardless of the possible legal ramifications of neglecting these important standards, there are numerous reasons why an accessible, standards compliant website makes good business sense as well.
Why Your Site Needs to Be Accessible
A standards compliant website will be more compatible with future technologies and protocols. If your website is not standards compliant today, you run the eminent risk of it being completely incompatible with emerging technologies tomorrow. In the long run, that translates to higher costs due to increased maintenance and labor, not to mention that it will likely be much sooner before a complete overhaul will be needed.
A standards compliant and accessible website will receive better search engine ranking. Technologies that promote accessibility and which comply with standards separate content from style and layout. When this divorce is made, the actual documents which are searched have a much higher content to code ratio. In addition, these technologies allow important content to be placed in more prominent locations in the flow of code.
A standards compliant and accessible website will be easier to maintain, more modular, and require less man hours. By separating content from design, global changes to the layout and style can be made in one place without affecting content.
A standards compliant website will convey to potential customers that your business is dedicated to cutting edge technology. An accessible website will give potential customers a sense that your company take its social responsibility seriously, even if your target audience does not typically include those who are disabled.
It is not unusual to underestimate how many individuals would indeed benefit from an accessible website. First of all, an accessible website is a usable website, and therefore all of your customers will benefit from it. How often have you gone to a website and wished you could resize the text so that you could read it more comfortably? How often have you been utterly confused by a website's navigational scheme? These are just some of the issues which fall within the realm of accessibility but which would benefit everyone, not just the disabled.
Website Redesign
Dragon Eye Design offers complete website redesign services to bring your company's website in compliance with today's standards and accessibility best practices. We can create a new look and feel for your website according to web standards or retain an existing design while bringing the underlying code into conformance with web standards for you.
Website Auditing
If you already have the in-house personnel to create and maintain your company's web presence but wish to have an accessibility expert comb through the site and simply identify problem areas, Dragon Eye Design offers standards and accessibility auditing services. We will make helpful recommendations aimed at solving the issues we encounter and pass them along to the appropriate department within your organization.