Today, designing for accessibility has become a bare minimum for quality assurance in website development. Many website owners also want to bring their sites into compliance with accessibility guidelines like the WCAG and JIS X 8341-3.
Our Web Accessibility Development Service meets these needs by ensuring accessibility at all stages of website development and page authoring, including the design, modification, implementation, and validation stages.
Purpose of the Service
Whether you're developing a new website or renovating an existing one, our accessibility engineers provide support throughout your project to ensure that your website and each page on it are accessible to as many users as possible, rather than only to users with specific computer environments.
This service is based on our Web Standards Compliance Service, providing support in areas where standards compliance alone does not ensure accessibility. We also provide support for other areas of development and authoring.
Features of the Service
- Comply with the accessibility guidelines that are right for your site, including the WCAG, JIS X 8341-3, or your own guidelines.
- We provide implementation guidance and validation to improve accessibility at every stage, including guidance on the latest trends in accessibility and how to use support technologies.
- Our web designers and accessibility engineers work together to build a site that combines good design with accessibility – something often considered too difficult to achieve.
- We also offer support to improve the accessibility of rich internet applications (RIA).
For more information about guideline compliance, see our WCAG Compliance Service and Web Content JIS Compliance Service. For more information about accessibility of Flash content (probably the most frequently used content in RIAs), see our Accessible Flash Contents Development Service. You can also contact us directly using the contact information below for more information regarding this service.
Service Details
This service provides three levels of support, depending on the size of your website and your budget: light, standard, and professional.
- Light
- Eliminates the most fundamental accessibility issues
Example: Makes sure that information is provided to the visually impaired via alternate text - Standard
- Ensures basic and minimal accessibility (aimed at providing better-than WCAG 2.0 A compliance)
Example: Makes sure that information provided does not depend on color or shape - Professional
- Ensures maximum possible accessibility (aimed at providing better-than WCAG 2.0 AA compliance)
Example: Ensures the accessibility of non-(X)HTML content, including Flash, PDF, and JavaScript
In addition, the following services are provided at all levels.
- Review and Validation of Overall Site Development Workflow
- We provide expert advice and improvement at all stages of site development, from determining the appropriate guidelines and service level, to final validation of site content.
- Validation Reporting
- We validate your site's content based on the requirements you have for the website, and submit a report of the validation results.
Service Flowchart from Inception to Completion (Only Items Relating to Accessibility Included)
- Interview about goals and detailed requirements
- Ascertain current status, and define requirements (e.g. the guidelines to serve as a standard and the scope of work)
- Design validation and consulting
- Validation and correction of individual pages
- Validation report
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