School WebSite Builder Accessibility

There are 10 million people in the UK with some form of disability (source - Disability Rights Commission) - that's about one in seven of the population.

If your website isn't accessible you could be turning away potential customers as well as falling foul of the law. We think it makes sense to have an accessible website. This means that internet uers who have visual or motor impairments can also experience the pleasures and benefits of the worldwide web.

The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA) makes it illegal for companies to provide an inferior service to, or discriminate against, a disabled person. This legislation extends to websites. In March 2003 the Disability Rights Commission announced its decision to test 1000 websites for accessibility. There was no intent to name and shame or indeed take legal action. It was an exercise to ascertain the level of accessibility awareness and implementation in websites across the UK. The results, published in April 2004, were astonishing. Only 0.2% of the sites tested achieved anything like the level of accessibility deemed acceptable. More alarmingly, 81% of the tested sites failed to reach the most basic accessibility guidelines.

With School WebSite Builder you know your web site is compliant.