Webability Design

New Articles Series

2008-11-19T14:01:00.008Z

Webability Design is about to launch a series of articles covering important topics and questions that many of us, particularly non-web designers, have on mind. The topics aim to help you make a better use of the Internet and help you understand how the Internet works.

The idea for series came after Sam, our managing director, met with many business owners in a recent event who were dissatisfied with their websites, even with the amount of money spent on each, and struggling with understanding websites fundamentals.

The series aims to:
• Help you understand how websites function
• Answer many questions you might have when it comes to the web
• Identify your online clients and targeting the right group(s)
• Reach out to all your potential clients
• Work better with your web designer
• Avoid spending unnecessary money on your website
• Help you market and promote your website better
• Help you avoid possible legal issues

The first article in the series fall under the topic "Are you happy with your website?" and covers questions like:
• What is your website about?
• Who are your potential clients/customers?
• Who are your website visitors?
• Are those visitors turning into clients?
• How to turn your visitors into clients?

We hope that you find this series useful and we would appreciate your feedback about the content, topics and any questions that you might have.

Have a nice day...

Webability Design
www.webabilitydesign.com

What is Web Accessibility?

2008-05-21T15:52:00.000+01:00

Web Accessibility is practice of making websites usable, to the full extent, by people of all abilities and disabilities.

Unfortunately most UK Internet pages are not accessible, as designers are often unaware of those accessibility standards, and they mostly aim to produce pretty pictures and effects, while making it very difficult for disabled users (about 8.5 million in the UK) to make a use of it.

Businesses and services lose a large section of potential customers through web inaccessibility (roughly about 20%), who have plenty of money to spend in their pockets. Additionally, those organisations put themselves in legal risks due to the recent DDA laws in the UK enforcing web accessibility.

You can find more information about a famous web accessibility lawsuit in the USA, by reading this article (http://www.out-law.com/page-6634) and another against the Sydney Olympics website (http://www.contenu.nu/socog.html)

For more information about web accessibility, please visit the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative website at http://www.w3.org/WAI/ or contact Sam at Webability Design to find out how accessible your website is.

Webability Design Blog Launch

2008-04-29T13:13:00.000+01:00

Welcome to Webability Design's blog.

Webability Design is a new web accessibility consultancy and web design business based in Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK. The business was officially launched in February 2008 by Sam Daoud.

Sam graduated recently (July 2007) from the University of Bradford with a double award degree MEng and BEng in Electronic, Telecommunications and Internet Engineering. During Sam's last 2 years of study he was working for a department of the University of Bradford doing web accessibility and web design as an additional tasks beside his original job description of clerical work. From there few other organisations approached him for doing web design for them and the idea of starting a business started growing up.

The title Webability Design is meant to sum up the business's services and idea, where Webability is stands for "WEB AccessiBILITY" and Design stands for "web DESIGN".

The business is currently being supported by Think Business @ Bradford support unit and Bradford Kickstart (Bradford Chamber of Commerce and Industry)

For further details, please contact Sam Daoud on sam@webabilitydesign.com, visit our web site www.webabilitydesign.com or contact us by phone on +44 (0) 1274 235249.

Have a nice day,
Sam