Design for Disability Access.

The Bridging Group is dedicated to provide our website clients the opportunity to implement web page designs that are fully accessible to people with a wide variety of impairments.

In 2001 the Participation and Activity Limitation Survey (P A L S) following up on the 2001 Census estimated that the number of Canadians living with disabilities are 3.6 million. 
The population of Canada (2003 Census data) is approx. 30.5 million. Ergo, 10 percent of Canadians have some form of disability.
[link opens in new window] Read more about the PALS Survey.

The additional benefit of having a well designed handicapped access site is that it is accessible for everyone, including users of:  mobile phones, handheld devises, Web TV or Kiosk. 
If you are in a noisy environment you need the same utilities as a person who is deaf.

The Bridging Group urges all designers to take responsibility to ensure everyone, regardless of ability or disability, can read their designs.  

If you can't make your current site fully W3C accessible, consider creating optional "text only" pages of the site.

In the page links below we are covering accessibility solutions for the following disabilities: