How does your audience engage with you? How does it consume information? Accessibilty is more than a buzz word for web design, it's about delivering your message over multiple platforms / technologies in a manner that your audience wants and can relate to.
Accessibility is a general term used to describe the degree to which a product, device, service, or environment is accessible by as many people as possible. Accessibility can be viewed as the "ability to access" and possible benefit of some system or entity.
It is often used to focus on people with disabilities and their right of access to entities, often through use of assistive technology.
Accessibility is not to be confused with usability which is used to describe the extent to which a product (e.g. device, service, environment) can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction in a specified context of use. It is strongly related to universal design when the approach involves "direct access". This is about making things accessible to all people (whether they have a disability or not).
Accessible publishing is an approach to publishing and reading whereby books and other texts aren't only available in one standard format. Other formats that have been developed to aid different people to read include varieties of larger fonts, specialised fonts for certain kinds of reading disabilities.
Delargy Media's websites are accessible to screen readers, have fonts that can be made larger, and use descriptive wording to explain imagery well. On top of its compliance credentials, Delargy Media ensures that its content is made available to all and uses many platforms to deliver its messages. Throughout this site, there are links to various social networking feeds, online presentation, video productions and text-only bulletins. Each section on this site has its own RSS news feed to support all browsers in delivery the latest category-specific updates to subscribers. This site is also fully compatible with mobile phone technology.
