We are privileged to be working with CDSM to offer the Shaw Trust Web Accreditation (STWA) service. The combination of specialist technical auditing and disabled user testing results in one of the most comprehensive web auditing service on the globe. Pan-disabilities testing ensures that your website is usable by all.
Organisations we are working with include:
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Guild of Accessible Web DesignersGAWDS is a worldwide association of organisations and accessible web designers and developers - designed to both promote and protect standards - not technical standards but accessible design standards. |
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Department of Work & PensionsThe Department for Work and Pensions aims to promote opportunity and independance for all, help individuals achieve their potential through employment and work to end poverty in all its forms. |
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ELWaThis web site provides information relating to post-16 education and training in Wales for individuals, businesses, communities and learning and research providers. |
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ILA WalesIndividual Learning Accounts Wales gives information on their scheme that opened to the public on 21 July 2003 and since then over 9,300 learners have registered for ILA Wales support. |
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IT WalesIT Wales provides practical, accessible support to business in Wales, enabling them to embrace ICT development. IT Wales identifies what businesses are likely to need from Information Technology and exploits its unique links with academia to help business to remain competitive, innovative and ahead of the game. |
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Swansea LivesThe Swansea Lives web site comprises of a consortium of organisations and is designed to give information about services for people who have a learning disability in the Swansea area. |
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Royal Borough of Maidenhead & WindsorThe official website of the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Council. |
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Thalidomide TrustThe aim of the Trust is to provide relief and assistance for those people born, in the United Kingdom, damaged as a result of their mothers having taken the drug Thalidomide (as manufactured by Distillers Biochemicals Limited) during their pregnancy. |
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"The Shaw Trust conducted an accessibility audit of our website, ClacksWeb, as part of a major project to redevelop the site. I would not hesitate to recommend the services provided by the Trust to other organsations seeking to improve the accessibility of their websites. The entire experience was professional, educational and excellent value. We selected the Shaw Trust due to their unique combination of pan-disability testing and expert technical review. The work undertaken by the Trust's testers played a significant part in ClacksWeb winning two national awards for web accessibility, and most importantly in ensuring our site is accessible to as wide a range of users as possible, whatever their abilities." Daniel Champion - Web Dev Mgr - Clackmannanshire Council |
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SteriaSteria design, develop and deliver quality IT systems solutions underpinned by secure infrastructures for clients in the Defence, Criminal Justice, Emergency Services, Transport and Insurance markets. In addition, a high proportion of our business is with Government departments. |
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Communis LtdCommunis offer clients a range of consultancy services to help them make their web sites and intranets more accessible to staff and customers. Communis will not look for radical redesigns of the look and feel of a site. We concentrate instead on enabling you to improve the underlying structure of your site so that users with special requirements are no longer excluded. We believe that almost any design can be recreated accessibly - although we may recommend some changes that will improve accessibility and usability for all users. |
Other Clients include:
Legal & General, Barrow Borough Council, Gwalia Housing, Cardiff City Council, Aberdeen City Council, Community Legal Services, Cardinus e-learning, South Oxon District Council, Tullo Marshall Warren, Devon County Council, BBC Wales, British Standards Institute, Thames Water Authority, Red Cross, WPP, Welsh Assembly Government.
Testimonials
Clackmannashire Council
The Shaw Trust conducted an accessibility audit of our website, ClacksWeb, as part of a major project to redevelop the site. I would not hesitate to recommend the services provided by the Trust to other organsations seeking to improve the accessibility of their websites. The entire experience was professional, educational and excellent value.
We selected the Shaw Trust due to their unique combination of pan-disability testing and expert technical review. The work undertaken by the Trust's testers played a significant part in ClacksWeb winning two national awards for web accessibility, and most importantly in ensuring our site is accessible to as wide a range of users as possible, whatever their abilities.
Daniel Champion, Web Development Manager, Clackmannanshire Council
Gwalia Housing Association
"We test our web sites extensively using assistive technologies like screen readers during development, but no-one uses this equipment like the expert users at Shaw Trust - they are phenomenal.
We visited them during testing and spent an hour or so just watching them use our site and chatting about their experiences. They then produced a written report suggesting a couple of changes for us to make in order to meet the Shaw Trust Accessible standard. We complied and have also incorporated this feedback in developing our other sites.
The accreditation is great of course, but it was the user testing that was the real benefit in all this; the knowledge that these guys had checked out the site and given it the thumbs up".
Andy Elliot, Senior Web Editor, Gwalia Housing Association.
Audit Commission
"The Shaw Trust has been very supportive in helping us conduct accessibility audits of our key systems. There has been a general enthusiasm and a real desire to work with us to improve all aspects of accessibility.
The report was clear and instructive, with points for improvement and reasons why shown throughout the document. This has allowed us to plan and justify the actions easily, and to incorporate these points into our ongoing developments. We also found that visiting the test centre, whilst the audit was being carried out was invaluable for understanding why improvements were required"
Rob Phillpotts, Head of Development and Systems, Audit Commission.
