Accessibility

Foviance’s Accessibility Audit provides an in-depth evaluation of a website’s design and technical implementation against web accessibility guidelines (e.g. WCAG 2.0) and other guiding principles.

It identifies and categorises issues that makes web-based information and applications inaccessible to a wide range of people with disabilities, including those with visual, hearing, motor and reading impairments or difficulties.

Foviance’s website Accessibility Audit:

• Benchmarks a websites performance against web accessibility guidelines.
• Identifies areas of a website that contravenes accessibility guidelines and other areas of best practice.
• Provides business focused recommendations and solutions of how accessibility issues can be resolved and prioritised.

Foviance’s Accessibility Testing can be carried out with a wide-range of users with disabilities. Testing with users identifies key areas of difficulty and confusion with a websites content, structure, design and interactive features and provides actionable recommendations to improve the online experience for people with disabilities without hindering usability for everyone else.

Foviance pioneers an integrated approach to accessibility that follows the same principles as our usability evaluations. This allows our clients to incorporate accessibility within their online customer experience strategy, rather than treat it as a separate add-on that can compromise success.

Testing is either carried out in our London-based usability labs, or if there are technical constraints with users’ assistive technology set-up, the testing can be carried out in their home, office or other location.

We provide three key deliverables:

• Accessibility Report – detailed document outlining our methodology, results and their interpretation plus actionable recommendations.
• Video highlights – edited video clips of the most informative parts of the tests.
• Presentation – an oral presentation communicating the most important findings and recommendations.

Foviance’s Accessibility Training provides developers, designers and content editors with the knowledge and skills necessary for iterative implementation of accessible websites and applications and knowledge of how best practice can transform the online experience for people with disabilities.

Training can be carried out at Foviance’s office or in-house.

The 1-day accessibility training course includes:

• An introduction to accessibility, including the legal, moral and business reasons.
• Demonstrations of how people with disabilities access the web.
• Key accessibility guidelines and standards (WCAG 1.0, 2.0, PAS78).
• Examples of common accessibility issues in HTML, Flash, audio, video, Web 2.0.
• Best practice tips and techniques on accessible design and implementations.
• Web evaluation tools to help test for accessibility.
• The importance and value in involving users with disabilities in web accessibility testing.
   

A 2-day accessibility training course also includes:

• Live demonstrations of how people with disabilities access the web.
• A look at your (delegates) website in detail.

Bespoke training courses can be delivered in-house to your teams.