There are 8.6 million disabled people in the UK.

Is your website fully accessible to all of them?

Making your website accessible and standards-compliant not only makes business sense, it's also the law.

The Disability Discrimination Act 2005 brought new rights to disabled people, including the right to be able to access all websites that an able-bodied person would have. This, coupled with the fact that disabled people in the UK have a combined estimated spending power of around £50bn, makes developing a website that is accessible to all very important.

Our websites are built with accessibility and standards-compliance in mind. By fully separating content from design using CSS and an MVC framework, our sites not only degrade gracefully to screen readers, but are also easily convertible to display on future mobile internet devices such as PDAs.

the law

The DDA "makes it unlawful for a service provider to discriminate against a disabled person by refusing to provide any service which it provides to members of the public"

cross-browser support

Our sites are tested in the most common web browsers to make sure that they will appear as they were intended to.

css

By using stylesheets and MVC frameworks where appropriate, our sites can be converted to display on almost any device or platform when required.

what our clients say

Throughout the process we have found you to be most amiable and friendly, whilst retaining a fully professional service. Above all, you listened.

Emma

Marygold Weddings

articles & news

05/01/10

Grosvenor Orthodontic Website launched We're pleased to announce the launch of the new Grosvenor Orthodontic Clinic website which has been under redevelopment with Orchestrand. read more

14/11/09

Oldham Page Marsh Flavell Website Launched Orchestrand today launched the new website for Oldham Page Marsh Flavell, leading Solicitors in Melton Mowbray. read more

screen readers pci compliance

A screen reader is a piece of assistive software which interprets a website and presents the result to the website visitor as speech or Braille in some cases. This means that people who are blind, visually-impaired or have difficulty reading can navigate and digest the content of a website.

The ease in which a screen reader can interpret a website is dependent on the way the site has been constructed. For this reason, our sites are built using standards-compliant CSS/XHTML that can be scanned by screen readers.
PCI (Payment Card Industry) compliance involves a set of regulations required for companies who store, process or transmit Credit/Debit cardholder data. There are four PCI categories that your company could fall into depending on how many transactions a year you process;

Level 1 - over 6 million annual transactions
Level 2 - between 150,000 and 6 million annual transactions
Level 3 - between 20,000 and 150,000 transactions
Level 4 - less than 20,000 annual transactions

Is your website PCI compliant?