Accessibility Evaluation
Advice that Perfects for All
An accessibility evaluation is a review of how well your digital products support the needs of disabled web users, carried out by one of our highly skilled consultants.
It delivers a great set of insights into accessibility issues and solutions to improve your customer satisfaction.
Deliverables from Accessibility Evaluation
Our expert accessibility evaluation will give you:
- Specific recommendations for increasing the accessibility of your digital platforms, as well as, a thorough analysis of your website's accessibility strengths and weaknesses
- A web accessibility evaluation report with clear recommendations for how to remedy your site and improve its accessibility. Recommendations are defined as high, medium and low priority, as appropriate
- Increased accessibility knowledge because knowledge sharing is at the core of everything we do. Through a close, collaborative approach we make sure that you learn as much as you can from our expertise throughout the accessibility testing process
Accessibility is a multi-disciplinary topic and is essentially a mixture of both user and technical requirements. in addition to our accessibility consulting services, we
also provide both usability and design and development services.
How do we start our user experience partnership? Discover the benefits of user experience and learn more about our
user experience services.
Success stories
Our work consistently helps our clients meet and exceed their targets. Some of our success stories include:
- Consistent 70% increase in membership for DigitalEve Columbus
- Consistent 50% increase in lead generation for Healing Environments with Feng Shui
- Increased customer satisfaction for InsightETE
- Almost 50% increase in lead generation for Quality Auditing Services
- 500% conversion improvement in sales per week for Tiles With Style
Our Methodology
The expert accessibility evaluation is carried out by our highly skilled in-house accessibility specialists. Although we do refer to the W3C guidelines in the accessibility evaluation, we will not be performing a 'box-ticking' exercise - rather we test for 'real-world' accessibility, evaluating what real disabled users would actually do on your site.
The accessibility evaluation follows a robust process:
- First, our experts perform a number of checks to get a good grasp of the level of accessibility on your site and important changes that are required. We don't use automated testing tools as they're unable to check for most accessibility issues, and the checks they do perform are generally inadequate.
- In addition to the large number of human checks, a number of programs are used
including JAWS screen reader, ZoomText screen magnifier, color blind
analyzer, HTML validator etc.
- After you (or we) have implemented the changes from the web accessibility evaluation, we'll run an accessibility health check on your website. This is to ensure that our recommendations have been properly implemented and usually takes place 3-6 months after the initial web accessibility evaluation.
- We can then continue to provide an accessibility health check of your website every six months, as part of an on-going accessibility evaluation.
The web accessibility evaluation can be carried out in conjunction with our accessibility testing service, whereby we recruit a range of disabled
users and have them complete common tasks on your website.
We test against best practice guidelines as set down by the W3C, and our own unique in-house research. The tests we carry out cover all disabled groups, such as blind, partially sighted, deaf, learning difficulties, the elderly, dyslexic and motor impaired users.
Learn more about our user experience design process.
The Big Picture
Accessibility is an important aspect of your
user experience strategy as it ensures that your digital platforms are suitable for all customers. Accessibility is an iterative process so it's crucial that your site continues to maintain high standards of accessibility over time as it changes and grows.
Get in touch with us on 614.432.4913 or
email us to discuss your user experience requirements.
If you are considering engaging us, we strongly encourage you to familiarize yourself our
user experience process and
blog, familiarize yourself with our
user experience services and
benefits. The more you know
about us, the more you will be able to have confidence in our ability to help you achieve your user experience goals.