Access by Audit

22/10/2024

We currently have an issue with our main office number, please call 020 8798 0050 (24 hrs) instead, thank you.

24/12/2021

Sign my petition to rid the world of Cookie Banners and make the Web a happier place! Cookie Banners are very challenging for disabled people and annoying for everyone else. Let us get rid of them!

https://zcu.io/MdXJ

Amend The Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, removing the need for Explicit Consent regarding the use of non-essential cookies. This would remove the need for Cookie Banners, which we believe discriminate against visually impaired people.

25/11/2021

Would you wait 2 minutes and 48 seconds before you could read the home page of a website? This is what the Information Commissioner's Office (unintentionally I am sure) forces visually impaired people to do, in a clear breach of the Equality Act.

https://zcu.io/LniB

11/11/2021

I am going to be a TedX Speaker!

I am so excited to announce that I am going to be speaking at TedX Lukely Brook on Wednesday March 2nd 2022! You may be unsurprised that learn that I am speaking about a subject closest to my heart: Website Accessibility for Disabled People!

I have spent 15 years talking about this; at meetings, events, media interviews and through rather a lot of online articles. I will always continue to do this, of course, however, I do feel extremely honoured to be invited to present in the TedX format.

The overall theme for the event is “If not now, when?” and never has then been more applicable to website accessibility than now.

As with other TedX events, it will be presented to a live audience and simultaneously live-streamed and be available on https://zcu.io/iVpC afterwards.

In case you are wondering why “If not now, when?” is particularly appropriate for this subject, well, detailed guidelines on how to make your website have been around since 1999. We are now in 2021 and yet most people have never even heard of the idea of a website being accessible or otherwise for a disabled person!

My lifelong wish is to Change the World – One Website at a Time. Perhaps the TedX platform will enable me to change one or two more.

https://zcu.io/cuaA

A motivational call to action, to prompt those attending and ‘touched’ by this TEDx event to take immediate action, on aspects of their business and personal life that they inevitably know they will have to undertake at some time, but so often delay or procrastinate upon.

23/09/2021

Blind people do not use the internet. How could they, they cannot see the screen.

https://zcu.io/H60X

29/07/2021

If you have a website, please watch this 1 minute video.

https://zcu.io/ajYp

If it applies to you, please follow this link book yourself in for my free workshop next Wednesday at 4pm.

https://zcu.io/NtE3

If you have a website, please watch this 1 minute video. If it applies to you, please follow this link book yourself in for one of my free workshops:https://...

05/07/2021

If your website is public, it falls under the Equality Act. If it is inaccessible to disabled people, they cannot buy from you, which is bad. They could also sue you under the Equality Act., which could be really bad.

Find out more: https://zcu.io/cvY8

Website Accessibility is something that affects everyone. If you publicly funded in any way, there is legislation that you need to comply with. If you are a business or other organisation, the Equality Act applies to you! The level of ignorance in this area is staggering and, I am afraid, applies to...

01/07/2021

The thing about film critics
How many film critics are there who have actually made a movie?
What about music critics? How many are actually musicians?
What about book reviewers? How many of them have actually written a novel?
What about restaurant critics? How many of them have run a restaurant?
The list goes on and on!

So, what is my point?

OK, it is this.

Unless you are an expert in accessible website design, having gone through the blood, sweat and tears involved in creating a website that meets the needs of everyone, regardless of ability or disability, how can you perform an accessibility audit of another website?

Unfortunately, this is what is happening today. Self-proclaimed experts are running automated reports of little value, charging inflated fees into the bargain. Accessibility statements are being written with no knowledge of accessible web design, leaving the website owners open to litigation.

When you need to get an accessibility audit of your website and are wondering who to approach, the first question to ask is this: does this person have a proven track record in building accessible websites?

It is not about what you say, it is about what you have done that gives you legitimacy.



If you would like to find out more about website accessibility, book yourself in now for my seminar, next Wednesday, 7th July at 4pm. Follow this link for further information: https://zcu.io/rysK

If you would like an initial free 15-minute consultation regarding the accessibility of your website, please follow this link: https://zcu.io/hQyY