Inclusive Design Research

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The UK contrast
By comparison, the position in the UK is clear. Private and public sector websites face accessibility obligations under the country's Disability Discrimination Act (DDA).

Struan Robertson, Editor of OUT-LAW and a Senior Associate with Pinsent Masons, said there is growing awareness of the legal obligation among companies in the UK. "The DDA seems to make board rooms take web accessibility more seriously than the ethical and commercial advantages in isolation," he said. "But while much work has still to be done to improve the accessibility of most UK sites, awareness of that need is the obvious first step – and it's unlikely that awareness in the UK would have reached its current level had our laws been ambiguous."


Structure - the separation of style and content
Style is the overall look and feel of the website and includes colours, fonts, layouts and certain graphics that are used across the whole website, such as logos and icons. The style of the website is contained in what are known as Cascading Style Sheets, CSS or Style Sheets.

Content is the text and associated graphics, such as photos and illustrations, as well as the overall structure of the site. The structure includes the navigation, the use of titling and headers in a similar way as one would construct a word document. The content of the website is contained in the website´s code which is a technology called XHTML.

In non-Web Standard technologies, the style and content are both contained within the HTML, which means that if any style changes are required across the website, such as colour or font, the web developer needs to alter the HTML of the entire website in every place that code for the specific style occurs (which may be hundreds or even thousands of changes, depending on the size of the website). With the use of (CSS), one change to the colour or font within the CSS will instantaneously make the necessary changes across the website.

A single website can have several different Style Sheets, which can be read by different devices. When connecting to the website, the device automatically knows which Style Sheet to access and will display the site as is appropriate to the device. Style Sheets can also be used to create printer friendly formats within the website.

Creating websites in this way considerably reduces production time, as developers have to use less code in the structure of the website