Accessibility/web design lolz

[frightened]

Yes, indeed, when you are using faint orange font on a white background, you have certainly made every effort to make the Bikeability website accessible and easy to use for everyone, no matter what browser you choose to use, and whether or not you have any disabilities.

My bleeding eyeballs would like to offer you a cookie. A cookie flavoured with purest STUPID.

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[barakta]

I may have got pissed off and broken my promise to Kim not to complain at anyone today:

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Dear Bikeability,

Re: http://content.bikeability.org.uk/accessibility/

I have been pointed at your accessibility page and general website and I was really shocked to find you thought that orange text on white background and white text on green background were accessible colours for anyone nevermind disabled users.

If you lightened the green background and used black text that would be more readable. The orange may be more readable if it was darkened considerably.

Light on dark is often very difficult for dyslexics to read due to halation type effects.

May I point you at some resources about readability.

http://www.bdadyslexia.org.uk/about-dyslexia/further-information/dyslexia-style-guide.html

and

http://www.rnib.org.uk/professionals/accessibleinformation/Pages/see_it_right.aspx


Regarding your comments about your third parties accessibility standards not being as high. You can apply accessibility standards to them, simply tell them you won't accept content which is not accessible. Make it a requirement.

I cannot tell from reading your site if you are a public sector body or not, if you are then you are bound by the Equality Act 2010 sections which require public sector bodies to hold their suppliers to the same accessibility standards that public sector bodies are held to.

Even if you yourselves are not a public sector body, it looks like you are linked in with schools. Schools are bound by anticipatory duty parts of the disability sections of the Equality Act previously SENDA (2004) previously Part 4 of the old Disability Discrimination Act which requires education providers and ANY providers they use to anticipate accessibility issues and ensure solutions are put into place without the need for a disabled person actually requiring access.

I hope you will be able to make a few more changes and actually be as accessible as you hope and claim without parts of your sites letting that claim down.

I look forward to hearing back from you within 20 working days to acknowledge my email and let me know what you plan to do with regards to the feedback I have provided.

Best regards,

barakta

[frightened]

That was much more articulate and smart than mine! Mine just said:

You have thin, light orange text on a white background – your site is not accessible. (And yes, I’ve read the ‘accessibility’ page, and having the bit telling me how accessible it was in an unreadable colour was hilarious.) I don’t have a visual impairment, and I can barely read it. Contrast is your friend! Dark on light is readable; light on light is not.

I understand that you’ve got your marketing and you want everything in your brand colours, but it is more important that people can actually read what you are saying.