"I really thank you for your faithful attending to accessibility. It is so wonderful. If people only realized how important it is, maybe more would take it seriously. Hurray for you!"
—D. Thompson
Executive Director
Arizona Office for Americans with Disabilities

This site is W3C 508 as well as WAI-A WCAG AAA compliant.

Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict

Valid CSS 2.0.

Website Accessibility

As "web masters", our challenge is to make all available information accessible to all persons in all places at all times. Factors determining information accessibility on the web fall into 3 general groups:

Does the information present well across many browsers, operating systems and internet connection speeds?
Is the information well-organized and easily navigatable?
Is the information accessible and navigatable to users with common disabilities?

Organizations of all types are interested in website accessibility for several key reasons:

Federal or state government accessibility requirements.
A need to reach broader markets or ageing demographics.
A mission to provide service to all persons or persons with special needs.
A desire to exhibit or benefit from cutting edge technology.

dataSpheric website accessibilty services include:

Accessible, standards-based website design.
Converting existing websites/designs to standards-base.
Accessibility testing for existing websites and software products.
Accessibility consulting.

Disabilities effecting web users have a very wide range.

Color blindness and poor vision are very common examples. Fine motor control issues effect many of us as we get older. There are the more extreme disabilities such as paralysis and there are cognitive disabilities such as dyslexia and learning disability. We believe that as much as 30% of the web using public has some such form of challenge. By working and persons with specific challenges and standards-based CSS-XHTML, we build websites that can be used in the same manner by persons with the broadest range of challenges.

Website accessibility can also have implications for "normal" users.

We now consider that a website should not only look good on the monitor screen, we require web pages to print well and be accessible to PDAs or hand-held internet devices. We also consider download speeds for the many different devices and services available today: information should be timely in order to be considered accessible.

Website accessibility therefore involves many disciplines.

Chiefly, these can be categorized as technical expertise, information architecture or semantic expertise and knowledge of a broad range of disabilities. This page and every page in our website is an expression of our accessibility expertise. It's been proofed by disabled web users, other accessibility experts and validates on the industry standard benchmarks as you see in the left-hand column of each page in our site.