Website Accessibility Consultant
By making your website inclusive, you enhance user experience, reach a wider audience, and strengthen your brand’s reputation.
What is Website Accessibility?
Website accessibility means removing barriers that prevent people with disabilities from using your site. This includes ensuring compatibility with screen readers, offering alternative text for images, making navigation intuitive, and ensuring content is readable and understandable.
I follow the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) to help businesses meet compliance standards while also improving usability for all visitors. An accessible website benefits everyone—not just those with disabilities—by creating a smoother, more intuitive user experience.
My Website Accessibility Consulting Services
Accessibility Audits
I carry out a full website audit to identify accessibility barriers. This includes reviewing navigation, multimedia content, colour contrast, text readability, and assistive technology compatibility. You’ll receive a detailed report with clear, actionable recommendations.
Compliance Strategy
I help you align your website with WCAG 2.2 and other relevant accessibility standards. Whether you need minor improvements or a complete overhaul, I’ll create a tailored action plan to ensure compliance while keeping your website functional and engaging.
Remediation Support
Fixing accessibility issues can be complex, but I make it simple. I provide hands-on support to implement necessary changes, working alongside your developers or handling updates directly. My goal is to make the process straightforward and stress-free.
Training & Education
Accessibility is an ongoing commitment. I offer training for teams, helping you integrate best practices into your content creation and development processes. This ensures your website remains accessible long after the initial improvements are made.
Why Work With Me?
Accessibility is about people. It’s about making sure everyone—regardless of ability—can interact with your website without barriers.
As an independent consultant, I take a hands-on, people-first approach, helping you create an inclusive digital experience that benefits both users and your business.
Focused Support
I only work with a limited number of clients at a time, ensuring that you get my full attention. This means a dedicated, high-quality service with a personalised approach to meet your specific goals.
Practical, User-Focused Solutions
I don’t just aim for compliance—I focus on real-world usability. My approach ensures your website works for everyone, improving engagement, conversions, and customer satisfaction.
Transparent Reporting
I believe in clarity and accountability. I provide easy-to-understand reports outlining what’s been improved, what’s next, and how these changes are making an impact.
Professional & Reliable
I take pride in delivering high-quality work, keeping you informed, and meeting deadlines. You can trust me to provide expert guidance and ongoing support throughout the process.
The Benefits of an Accessible Website
Reach More People
Building an accessible website broadens your potential audience considerably. Think about it: people with visual, auditory, motor, or cognitive impairments often struggle with websites that aren’t designed with accessibility in mind.
By making your site inclusive, you’re not just doing the right thing, you’re also opening your doors to a substantial group of users you might otherwise miss out on. This means more traffic, better engagement, and a larger potential customer base or readership.
Improved User Experience
Accessibility isn’t simply about accommodating specific needs; it’s about making the online experience better for everyone.
Consider things like clear navigation, well-structured content, and easy-to-read fonts. These elements, which are vital for accessibility, also make your site more user-friendly for all visitors, regardless of whether they have a disability. A positive user experience encourages people to stick around longer, explore more, and come back again.
Legal Compliance
There are laws in many countries designed to protect the rights of disabled people, and these often apply to the online world. Making sure your website meets accessibility standards, like the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), helps you avoid potential legal issues and shows you’re serious about equal access.
Stronger Brand Reputation
By prioritising accessibility, you demonstrate that you value inclusivity and are committed to serving everyone in your community. This boosts your brand image, builds trust with your audience, and can even give you an edge over your competitors.
Improved SEO Performance
It’s a bonus that many accessibility best practices also help with search engine optimisation.
For example, adding alternative text to images makes your site more accessible to visually impaired users, and it also helps search engines understand what your images are about, which can improve your search ranking. Likewise, a well-organised website structure is good for both accessibility and SEO, making it easier for users and search engines to find their way around.