overview

A website is a powerful marketing and business development tool. It can provide significant additional income streams and position your company as a key player in the international market place. You have made a financial commitment to achieving this status, so you want to make sure you are reaching the widest audience possible.

A diverse community of users, some with disabilities all with unique requirements, will access your website, so it is vital that this access comes easy. Atom Digital Design recognizes the importance of incorporating accessibility within its websites and is dedicated to prioritizing this critical issue.

We are committed to accessibility and support the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). From 1 October 2004 all our new client websites are designed to comply with accessibility guidelines and the UK Disability Discrimination Act, which applies to websites and is being actively enforced.

The Disability Discrimination Act (1995) and the revised Code of Practice (2002) by the DRC legislate that reasonable adjustments should be made to services to make them accessible to people with disabilities. A service provider has legal obligation to take reasonable steps to:

Change a practice, policy or procedure which makes it impossible or unreasonably difficult for disabled people to make use of its services;