People with visual disabilities are individuals who are blind, have low vision, or have colour blindness. People who are blind need text equivalents for the images used on the Web page, because they and their assistive screen reader technology cannot obtain the information from the image. A person who has a visual disability will not find the mouse useful because it requires hand and eye coordination. Instead, this person must navigate the Web page using only the keyboard. (more…)

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A case brought against the Sydney Olympics Committee in Australia in 2000 resulted in a landmark decision against the website owners, requiring them to pay $20,000 Australian dollars! (more…)

A few years ago the RNIB was involved in 2 county court cases;

The Royal National Institute of the Blind (RNIB) is the first organization in the UK to take legal action against a company in violation for the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA).

RNIB 2005

‘There has recently been some interest around The Royal National Institute of the Blind’s (RNIB’s) involvement in Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) cases relating to accessible websites. RNIB has recently been involved in two such cases, one of which was the subject of county court proceedings, and which settled in July 2003; these are the first court proceedings which they are aware of that related in any way to the provision of a service on the web. (more…)

Who can build you a website design that ‘complies with UK Law’? (more…)

The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 – (the DDA), was introduced with the intention of comprehensively tackling the discrimination which many disabled people face. (more…)

Web Design, Accessibility, RNIB & The UK DDA

No one agency or organisation police the world wide web with a view to prosecuting any one website owner. Specific support organisations may approach you because a member of public has made a complaint or expressed adisatisfaction about your website or service. Here we look at some of the activity of the RNIB over the last few years and how they view the importance of compliance with the DDA. (more…)

Although very unlikely as it stands, the answer is yes, you can be prosecuted simply because your website is not accessible enough for all – not just able bodied visitors.

A disabled person has every justification to make a claim against you if your website makes it impossible or unreasonably difficult to access information and services. Especially if, when the contact you with a request to modify something, you ignore them! (more…)

Minimal Level Of Accessibility – Websites, UK Law & DDA

As there has been no case brought to court (as yet) in the UK, there is no set minimum level of requirement. It has long been accepted that the minimum level required to comply with UK law is Priority 1 at the very least, which means you have at least removed some of the most obvious barriers to a disabled visitor to your site. (more…)

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The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 – The DDA and the secondary legislation applied within Northern Ireland have placed a legal duty on service providers to make reasonable adjustments to the way they provide services to ensure that disabled people can use them. (more…)

A big question. Websites suffer from varying levels of inaccessibility. To keep on the right side of UK Government Law, your website should meet certain basic criteria. (more…)