BS8878 Services

AbilityNet helped author the new British Standard ‘BS8878 – Web Accessibility Code of Practice’ providing us with the knowledge and expertise to assist your organisation in integrating its detailed requirements into all aspects of your strategic and technical processes.

The BS8878 standard is an extensive document covering a broad range of aspects of web governance from procurement to technical compliance with the globally-recognised web accessibility guidelines (WCAG 2.0).

AbilityNet provides consultancy to ensure that the best practice outlined in BS8878 is integrated into every aspect of your organisation.

These services include:

A review of your internal guidelines, policies and processes to evaluate how well they reflect best practice and conform with BS 8878.
A review of your website and intranet for conformance with best practice as embodies in BS 8878 and compliance with WCAG2.0 standards.
On-going reviews of all channels of communication (including website, email and print) to ensure accessibility is achieved and maintained.
Development and delivery of both technical and general awareness training for staff and vendors.
An assessment service for all staff with specific access requirements.

Please contact us for more details on our BS8878 services.

Webinar ‘BS8878 Explained

The BS 8878 standard was launched on 7 December 2010. The day after AbilityNet delivered a webinar that explained in some detail the key content of this new standard.

It was intended to provide a succinct overview of what BS8878 means to you and your organisation.

Topics covered included:

How BS 8878 builds on PAS 78
What is in BS 8878 & how it fits with other web standards such as WCAG 2.0
First steps in implementing BS 8878
Questions and Answer session

Watch a recording of this webinar.

BS 8878-Ready Internal Guideline Documents

AbilityNet have drafted a complete set of Best Practice Business Guidelines to help ensure every aspect of your business is as accessible as possible.

This comprehensive set of guideline documents covers all areas – from procurement and strategy, to web development (including Flash and video). Each document represents many weeks of development- and each document has been reviewed and updated as necessary to ensure they are all ‘BS8878-ready’.

Each guideline document can be tailored by us to your specific business requirements, or simply used unamended to form an excellent and comprehensive set.

For more information please visit our Best Practice Internal Guidelines page.

For more information:

Email accessibility@AbilityNet.org.uk
Phone 0800 269545

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