Accessibility Design helps businesses ensure compliance with accessibility standards. With our integrated approach towards accessibility, you can support individuals with visual, auditory, mobility, cognitive, or neurological issues, or temporary challenges such as a broken arm, to partake of equal opportunities. Our services will not only help you enhance your customer base but also demonstrate social responsibility.

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The Business Case for Improved Access to Digital Channels
Accessible Design for Software
January 2015
Charudatta Jadhav

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Accessible Design for Software, 2015
Accessibility
opens your
digital channels
to more users
Accessible design can
address the needs of
wide a range of
individuals and groups.

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Sara loves shopping
online, but only with
an e-tailer that is
compatible with her
screen reader.
1 billion people
worldwide are
estimated to have
disabilities.
A visually impaired
customer benefits
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10,000 people
in the US alone
reach the age of
65 everyday.
Rob switched insurance
companies simply
because the new
company website
had information
in resizable font.
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Senior citizens
have changing
needs
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Accessible
design is
not just
designing
for the
disabled
Accessibility is the
degree to which a
product, device,
service, or
environment is
available to as
many people as
possible.
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Accessible
design
makes
business
sense
With an estimated
worldwide
spending power of
US$1 trillion,
people with
disabilities are a
significant market
segment.
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Accessibility litigation is on
the rise and everyday
businesses are settling on
court cases.
A banking services company
in the USA paid out $16
million in compensation in a
landmark case in 2011.
Accessible design
makes for
compliance
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Accessible
design
promotes
social
inclusion
Improved access to
services is an
aspect of social
responsibility. It
reduces isolation
and increases
inclusion.
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Principles of
accessible
design
Empathy towards people
with temporary and
permanent disabilities and
challenges.
User-centric approach to
design to provide a range
of options including
resizable text, color
contrast, and
navigation
improvements.
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Regulatory compliance
and risk mitigation.
Reaching customers
who would previously
have been excluded.
Enhanced brand
reputation through
positive social impact.
Accessibility
investment
offers multiple
returns
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