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Promoting your website to everyone is a vital ingredient to making the most of the global marketplace that the Internet offers. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is a group of companies and individuals that have installed themselves as Internet champions. They have been responsible for developing the URL, HTML and many other industry standards for the Internet. They have also developed the Web Accessibility Initiative that aims to help disabled people have access to the same websites as anyone else. Ensuring your website's W3C Accessibility compliance will help your website business appeal to all potential customers.
What Is W3C Compliance?
The updated Disability Discrimination Act is a part of the Web Accessibility Initiative and states that businesses must create websites and web pages that are accessible to the disabled. The W3C have set guidelines that these websites must adhere to and while the revised standards have been established for some time, it has recently been discovered that over half of all websites do not meet these standards. When considering these standards and guidelines you should also consider that individuals might have the right to sue companies that do not provide the appropriate level of accessibility.
How Can Ultima Thule Help With W3C Compliance?
Ultima Thule has developed several automated software tools that can assess your website based on these standards and using this information a rank for your website will be given as well as any recommendations on how to improve the accessibility of your site. If necessary we will also manually check your site to give an even clearer indication. The Ultima Thule systems take into account all of the following:
- Visitor disabilities
- W3C compliance
- Geographical location of visitors
- Language spoken
- Website browser
- Screen resolution
- Personal settings
- Internet connection
Further Advantages Of W3C Compliance
As well as being sure you are in compliance with the Disability Discrimination Act, bear in mind that there are over 1.7 million registered as disabled including blind or partially sighted people. If your business website can provide them with information that they cannot gain anywhere else they are certain to become very loyal customers.
Further Advantages Of Website Accessibility Testing
Website accessibility testing isn't solely used to ensure that the disabled have a good level of access to your website and using the website consultancy service that Ultima Thule offers will consider all demographical and geographical considerations. This way you can ensure that all of your potential visitors are able to effectively access your website and gain the information they require. You should also consider technological factors such as the operating system being used, screen resolution, browser version e.g. Internet Explorer and even personal settings. Only by allowing for all eventualities can you be sure of receiving the hits you deserve.
The Global Accessibility of the Internet
The Internet has evolved with the intention of providing a universal network to everyone around the world. Only be using a highly effective website consultancy service like the one that Ultima Thule offers can you be absolutely certain that you are providing this level of accessibility and taking advantage of the global potential that you should.
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