Whose Responsibility Is Accessible Website Design?
This is quite hotly debated as UK Law is vague. As I understand it, under PAS 78 website commissioners have a responsibility to ensure accessibility is considered. Under the UK DDA website developers have a responsibility not to discriminate against disability. In UK Law, the area is so Grey (because there has no case been brought to court) nobody actually knows yet who’s ultimately responsible. So it is critical that when you buy a new website you, at the web tender and contract stages, agree whose responsibility it is. Does Accessibility Cost More? Sure, it’s a pain in the backside for website developers to learn, create and maintain accessible websites. However in my opinion accessible design is quite simply good practice, good website design, and if accessibility is considered at the outset of any design project, costs are minimalised until a design agency finds that there is no need to charge extra for what should be best practice. A lot of websites suffer from exactly the same pr
