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Accessibility Statement
creativenucleus respects the need for a fully accessible internet.
Every effort is made to ensure that the information on our site is clear, well presented and available in an 'accessible' style for those who require it. Users for whom 'enhancements' (such as javascript and visual Flash) are unavailable are presented with a version of the site with all core information still intact.
If you have any difficulty reading any information on this website, please get in touch, tell us what the problem is, and we'll do our best to fix it.
Clients' Websites
As standard, our clients' websites are built for web-standards compliance (W3C standards) and contain acess features in line with currently accepted guidelines.
If a client's brief requests a website design which may conflict with accessiblity guidelines (such as a site built entirely around visual Flash or javascript), we'll warn them and recommend an alternative method. However, the final decision about a site's construction should lie with a fully informed client and the responsibility (and further implications) will ultimately be theirs.
Caveats
Web technologies are constantly updated and older items in our portfolio may not conform to the current common guidelines.
Where guidelines conflict (for example, the most accessible colour combinations for dyslexics) we'll make a decision based upon what we presume to be the most appropriate for a particular project.
Web browsers as most people know them (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox) are only one way of decoding and presenting internet content.
If acceptably structured, the information can also be read aloud by screen readers for the partially sighted and blind.
Web accessibility initiatives aim to highlight methods to make information available (by, for example, not hiding text in graphics)
Accessibility issues also concern areas other than the visual- including hearing, cognitive ability, dyslexia and mobility. Developer awareness of the issues is necessary so that everyone can participate in, and enjoy, the web.
As a bonus, structural decisions made when developing accessible website content coincide well with those recommended to make your pages best available to search engines
The Disability Discrimination Act (or 'DDA') is UK legislation relating to making services available to everyone and includes information about the correct provisions for websites.
At the time of writing, there have been no prosecutions under UK law.
However, the potential is there and a couple of large companies approached by disability organisations have opted to redevelop their site rather than become involved in legal proceedings.
Other countries have developed similar legislation to the UK's.