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Accessible Website Design

Collaborint's Accessible Website Design Services are project-based and optimized for efficient delivery of new websites and website redesigns. Our Web Accessibility experts and designers will work with you to anticipate, architect, and realize maximum web accessibility.

Why Choose Collaborint to Manage Your Project?

When designing a website, continuous evaluation of accessibility throughout the entire design and development process will identify accessibility problems when it is easiest to address them. Our Web Accessibility experts and designers will work with you to anticipate, architect, and realize maximum web accessibility crafted into your project from the very start through project completion, and as our clients will attest, sometimes, beyond project completion.

Benefits of an Accessible Website Design

We recommend that a minimum of WCAG Level A conformance be implemented for any website. But, aside from a minimum standards compliance rationale, why consider an accessible website designed by Collaborint? Put simply, ROI.

We can't emphasize enough that accessible website design benefits go far beyond providing access to the disabled user. Depending upon your design specifications and requirements, in addition to improved access for the disabled user, an accessible website design will usually result in:

Extended market reach — access for all

• access for more users and more devices including assistive devices, cell phones, handhelds, etc.
• standards-based XHTML source code makes it easier for search engines to crawl and index the website content improving Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Enhanced usability — an accessible website improves usability for everyone

• advanced use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) simplifies and compacts the HTML source code for faster loading web pages, especially for dial-up, modem users
• CSS provides opportunities to easily implement style sheets for handhelds, cell phones, printers, and more
• CSS improves web page readability such as enabling the user to resize text to fit their individual needs and preferences

Cost savings — maintaining your website will cost you less

• updates to your web pages can be accomplished in minutes because advanced CSS provides finer and more centralized control over how things appear and work on a web page
• simplified, standards-based, XHTML code provides improved cross browser compatibility and forward compatibility with emerging, standards-based, technology and web browsers

The Next Step

Please complete the Design/Development Services Quote Request form or see our Contact Us information for email addresses and phone number.

Suggested Further Reading

• Collaborint's accessible website design
• Web Accessibility Resources
• How Web Standards Improve SEO and Web Accessibility
• W3C Accessibility Guidelines (new window opens)
• Section 508 Standards (new window opens)

“From helping us write the RFP to designing a new logo and supporting us with art/content management, web accessibility, and technology, Collaborint was always available to answer our questions, offer suggestions and to work with us to design a unique, accessible website. We loved the process and are delighted with the end results.”