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Making a
legal website. - Nucent Technologies (Website
Design Company) Guide
Website Design Company
in India thinks about advertising
standards, copyright, and legally offensive content when they
consider the law. But they sometimes forget that there exists a
law that affects everybody doing business in public. This law
also affects
web design company in
India and the development sector. This law is
known as the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA), which was
implemented in 1995.
This law states that providing a service that is not accessible
to everybody is illegal. It is irrelevant whether the service is
paid for or it is provided free. This legislation is applicable
to information and services provided the Internet. The major
services in this sector are
website design India, web
development India, web hosting India, website promotion India
etc.
Following the DDA guidelines will not only make your website
legal but also go beyond that. Having an accessible website for
disabled people, you will be reaching a far more number of
people than you normally would. You will build a reputation for
your
website design company and
eventually for your website as one that cares for disabled
people. If you are selling products on your website then you
will be reaching a far greater audience.
Many people believe that if they make the text on their website
suitably large, or that they make it resizable and include text
descriptions of the images on their website then they are
fulfilling the needs of disabled visitors. However, this
interpretation is demonstrably short of the mark, and leaves
many disabled users of the Internet with websites that are often
partly or completely inaccessible.
When you realize that disabled means people who are other than
just visually impaired, you will understand that numerous people
have their rights compromised by poorly thought-out, constructed
and designed websites.
Lets look at Dyslexia as an example. The British Dyslexia
Association estimates that four percent of the population is
severely dyslexic, and another ten percent have symptoms of the
same condition. This means that is your website has long
content, long sentences, and vague navigational devices, then
that 15% percent of the population will avoid your site and
visit another one, which could probably be your competitors. So,
it is of utmost importance that your
website design company
in India
follows the guidelines of the DDA.
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