Arcadia Highlights the Need for Accessible Applications and WCAQ 2.0 / 2.1 Compliance

At the same time in the UK, where 1 in 5 people have a disability, to meet government accessibility requirements, digital services must comply with WCAG 2.1 AA level as a minimum. Accessibility not only promotes inclusivity and independence for the disabled but also helps private sector companies to potentially expand their audience by 20%. At the same time in the UK, where 1 in 5 people have a disability, to meet government accessibility requirements, digital services must comply with WCAG 2...

At the same time in the UK, where 1 in 5 people have a disability, to meet government accessibility requirements, digital services must comply with WCAG 2.1 AA level as a minimum. Accessibility not only promotes inclusivity and independence for the disabled but also helps private sector companies to potentially expand their audience by 20%.

For people with visual, hearing, motor or cognitive disabilities, assistive technologies such as screen magnifiers, screen readers, text readers, user input options, and speech recognition tools make all the difference when it comes to usability.

As a well-known leader in e-learning and digital assessments solutions, Arcadia has been on the forefront of developing the most advanced custom software for decades. "Besides employing assistive technologies in order to present content in an understandable and easy to use manner, there are dozens of standard success criteria and techniques that we utilise routinely when building a digital assessment platform.

For example, to consider all the major categories, building different navigation options is important when only keyboard usage is possible; use of colour ratios, bold or highlighted elements for the visually impaired; descriptive text and prompts for test items are some of the things that we always look at" explains Dmitri Adov, Technical Director at Arcadia.

Considering the complexity of specialised applications and the potential to increase users, educators should consider accessibility as a priority in the web design process.

Arcadia, a multi-million pound British Standards Institute (BSI) certified company that works extensively with Fortune 500 companies designing and building high-load web solutions for digitisation, analytics, big data, reporting and AI, integrated with core business software, provides the full range of software development services across sectors from education to pharmaceuticals and from retail to airlines.

For more information about Arcadia, contact:
Dmitri Adov, Technical Director         
[email protected]
+44 (0)127-401-9741
www.softwarecountry.com