Neath’s Digital Accessibility Centre helping businesses across the
World with their online services
We live in a digital world where we can organise our lives and access information on with a tap of a keyboard or screen. But for those with additional access requirements and/or disabilities, navigating the internet is not always easy.
Helping to redress the balance is the Digital Accessibility Centre, where thousands of websites and online services have been put through their paces by a specialist team who make sure they can be accessed by everyone and across a plethora of digital platforms.
Under the 2010 Equality Act, anyone providing goods and services has to make sure all can utilise those services, but even the biggest companies and organisations can unwittingly fall-short of their accessibility obligations.
Based at the Darcy Business Park in Llandarcy, DAC has grown steadily and currently employs 36 staff, including seven technical auditors and 26 user testers. The office’s close proximity to the M4 makes it ideal for visiting clients and staff members who travel from all over the UK.
Most of DAC’s team members have disabilities, and testing is carried out for a platform’s suitability for a range of impairments including visual, hearing, and mobility, cognitive, Asperger’s, and anxiety/panic disorders.
Clients have access to a range of digital accessibility testing and review services including design reviews, template testing, audit and certification, accessibility training, consultancy, AccessIN feedback tool and the most recent addition – the creation of bespoke e-learning accessibility modules.
Based at the Darcy Business Park in Llandarcy, DAC has grown steadily and currently employs 36 staff, including seven technical auditors and 26 user testers. The office’s close proximity to the M4 makes it ideal for visiting clients and staff members who travel from all over the UK.
Most of DAC’s team members have disabilities, and testing is carried out for a platform’s suitability for a range of impairments including visual, hearing, and mobility, cognitive, Asperger’s, and anxiety/panic disorders.
Clients have access to a range of digital accessibility testing and review services including design reviews, template testing, audit and certification, accessibility training, consultancy, AccessIN feedback tool and the most recent addition – the creation of bespoke e-learning accessibility modules.
DAC has an impressive client list that includes blue-chip and multi-national companies as well as government departments and banks.
The enterprise’s first customer was Channel 4, and since then DAC has provided services to a host of household names including retailers Tesco and Next, communications providers Vodaphone, Three and BT, also bodies such as The Law Society, and the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
Their clients span continents too, with several companies in America and Australia utilising DAC’s services. Says DAC’s director of sales and services department, Cam Nicholl, “We are in a good position in that we are able to influence positive change to the benefit of disabled people.
For further information on the Digital Accessibility Centre,
visit their website here.
