Website Audits
The UK Disability Discrimination Act makes it illegal for any non-personal UK website to not be accessible, and fines can be upto £5000. Accessible websites confer many benefits to you and your website visitors, including making your site more user-friendly, opening your site up to a wider audience, giving you a potentially higher search engine ranking and better future-proofing your site.
There are many ways in which your website can be inaccessible:
- Visual difficulties - colour blindness, age-related macular degeneration and varying degrees of blindness can lead to problems with your site's chosen colour scheme and text size. Screen readers read out all information on a page - is your website optimised for alternative technologies?
- Cognitive difficulties - dyslexia and other difficulties can mean your website layout or content cannot be understood. Is your navigation clear and non-technical language used?
- Hearing difficulties - if your website uses audio files, do you supply a transcript?
- Mobility difficulties - RSI and arthritis etc...mean that not all visitors can use a mouse. Does your website include other ways to navigate through the content?
Other aspects of your website that we check include loading speed, dead links, compliance with web standard coding, search engine link popularity and other factors that can influence your place in the search engine rankings.
LittleFish Web Design Audit Services
Our audit of your website/web pages checks the following:
- Compliance with the Disability Discrimination Act
- Compliance with recognised web coding standards
- Page loading speed
- Link popularity
- Other search engine optimisation (SEO) factors e.g. domain name and Google PageRank
The basic service checks all the above and provides you with a report of the results whereas the advanced service will report these results and suggest how to fix them. The advanced plus service which requires a copy of your webpages will make the changes for you, and give you a full report detailing these changes.
For further details and pricing, please contact us.
