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Commenting on the Web Accessibility Report 2004, Northern Ireland based Libertas Solutions (www.libertas-solutions.com) spoke out stating "Sadly, this comes as no surprise to us." The remark follows the findings of the survey, commissioned by SciVisum, the English website testing specialists, which concluded that the vast majority of UK websites were inaccessible to people with disabilities, despite legal requirements for businesses under the Disability Discrimination Act.
Neil Curran, Libertas Solutions’ managing director echoed the disappointment felt by those who strive to raise awareness of this issue added "Ensuring the accessibility of websites is not always a simple task, but nevertheless worth while as, aside from the legal and ethical arguments, accessible websites are open to a wider audience and also perform better in search engines." The Libertas Solutions MD laid responsibility for the situation squarely at the door of content management companies and web developers alike: "The Disability Discrimination legislation has been in place since 1995, and there is simply no excuse for web designers not taking reasonable steps to ensure clients' sites are accessible to people with disabilities."
Libertas Solutions, who specialise in web content management solutions which ensure accessible websites. Widely recognised as accessibility experts, Libertas Solutions have demonstrated their commitment to the issue, ensuring all sites powered by Libertas Solutions CMS meet industry standards as recognised by the main disability organisations. Libertas Solutions’ clients can easily keep the content on their websites fresh without discriminating against people with disabilities.
Laurence Shaw, managing director of SiteMorse, the leading supplier of accessibility tests to the UK financial and public sectors has said that: "no other supplier of services in NI has come anywhere near this level of competence ...[Libertas Solutions are] very much leaders in the field."
Carol Pollitt of the National Library for the Blind added "it is a pleasure to work with companies such as Libertas Solutions who are not only saying they are committed to accessible design but are actually delivering results."
Asked why they consider this aspect of their business so important, Neil Curran replied “it was a natural progression from the core element of our business which is to develop websites that are easy for non-technical business users to update themselves. The web content management solutions that we have developed ensure that industry standards for accessibility are met, therefore enabling companies to avoid discrimination by providing their information to people with disabilities quickly and easily.”
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