What is Usability & Accessibility?
Usability is about designing websites that are easy to use, whereas accessibility is about designing so that more people can use the website effectively in more situations. Accessibility is an integral part of usability as access results in the ability to use a website.
Usability & Accessibility Suppliers
Usability and Accessibility Suppliers
Optimum.web limited
Optimum.web provides an advanced evaluation service to optimise the usability of websites.
- Contact:
- Telephone:
- 020 7234 0989
- Address:
- Unit 6 Blue Lion Place
London
SE1 4PU
Optimum.web is a specialist website usability consultancy which provides a wide range of usability testing services. It has a unique structure that balances leading-edge research in human-computer interaction (HCI) with extensive commercial experience in practical usability engineering.
Optimum.web provides an advanced evaluation service to optimise the usability of websites based on the principles of human-computer interaction (HCI).
Optimum.web conducts usability testing, provides expert heuristic evaluations and delivers training services for both its own clients and those of new media design and development agencies.
Bamps Ltd
Our usability services help ensure your customers stay longer - and do better business on your site.
- Contact:
- Telephone:
- 0870 162 4920
- Address:
- Kinetic Centre
Theobald Street
Elstree
Hertfordshire
WD6 4PJ
Bamps.com is an internet consultancy offering a wide range of services, from web optimisation and internet marketing to web design and accessibility / usability consultancy.
We're not simply "another web designer". Our solutions are designed to improve your online communications - and as each project is different, so is our approach. We're specialists in analysing all forms of e-commerce, and we provide bottom-line focused solutions that go much further than just improving your communication channels.
As one of the most established new media consultancies in North West London and Hertfordshire, Bamps.com have worked with over 200 businesses and charities on a wide range of projects.
The Web Usability Partnership Ltd
Usability Framework has been developed by reference to the academic literature but has also been tested.
- Contact:
- Telephone:
- 01380 852000
- Address:
- The Old Church
Chittoe
Chippenham
Wilts
SN15 2EL
The Web Usability Partnership is an independent research and consulting business, established in 2002. The directors of the company bring 30 years of strategic consulting and research experience to making web sites more effective. We are customer - not technology - led. We deliver more than just reports - our approach ensures research gets turned into action.
We help to achieve our clients' aims for their sites and make these sites more effective. We combine rigorous user-focused research with a process to generate agreed and actionable results quickly and cost effectively.
User Vision
User Vision provides usability and accessibility advice, training and testing for all stages of development.
- Contact:
- Telephone:
- 0131 220 8213
- Address:
- 1 St Colme Street
Edinburgh
EH3 6AA
User Vision provides services throughout the UK and Europe and was established in 2000.
We are a consultancy dedicated to improving the user experience of your website, software or product. We offer a wide range of services including consulting, testing, reviewing, evaluation and training to help clients produce better products that customers find easier to use. We take a straightforward, practical approach to user needs analysis, problem solving and usability testing, leading to effective design solutions.
Elemental Creative Ltd
At Elemental Creative Ltd. our accessibility services will ensure that all types of web users can use your website.
- Contact:
- Telephone:
- 028 66320132
- Address:
- C1 Portora Wharf
Enniskillen
Co. Fermanagh
Northern Ireland
BT74 7PW
Elemental Creative Ltd specialises in bespoke website usability testing and accessibility testing and internet marketing services.
We report, analyse, develop and implement bespoke strategies, with the expressed aim of maximising a website's online potential and performance.
Our accessibility testing, usability testing and internet marketing services can help any company with a web presence or online application really succeed online.
Website accessibility and usability are closely related, as they both improve user satisfaction, effectiveness, and efficiency.
Accessible websites effectively remove barriers that include:
- Hearing, blindness or mechanical disabilities
- Language barriers
- Devices being used (PDAs, telephones etc.)
- Software being used (Lynx, Netscape, Web TV)
- Bandwidth issues (dialup modem, DSL, E1 line)