# Poptel's services anticipate DRC's accessible Web site report

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2004/04/11/poptel039s-services-anticipate-drc039s-accessible-web-site-report/
- Published: 2004-04-11T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Web design consultancy Poptel believes that the forthcoming Disability Rights Commission
report on Web site accessiblity will help tackle the digital divide.
Poptel is already
working with clients to

to ensure that Web site managers will be able to respond quickly to the Disability
Rights Commission’s report on Web accessibility which will be published later this
month.

MD Nelson Wootton said: “We are expecting the demand for help with accessible design
will grow significantlty when this report is published. For this reason, we are

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working with 49 local authorities in the North West to ensure that they all have
the skills – in house – to improve the accessibility standards on their Web sites.

“We are establishing a peer-network of Web designers in local government to

ensure that they can collectively build up their skills in this area – and help 
each other out.”

Poptel Technology offers accessibility checks for Web sites which “delivers an objective
assessment of compatibility with the key requirements of the current accessibility
standards”. The final report

includes recommendations on how to address any shortcomings identified.

Voluntary and public sector clients include Motability, DIAL UK and the union T&
GWU.

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