Blue Badge Route was set up in 2004 to provide services primarily for business wanting to understand better the issues faced by disabled people and to gain a wider understanding of barriers they experience in using technology such as a website.
Our team all come with personal knowledge of accessibility through their own impairments as well as coming from a range of technical and professional backgrounds . This allows them to be able to feed back and highlight potential problems and issues around barriers to technology. They also assist service providers in what to do to make adjustments in reducing informational barriers for disabled web users which at times are hard to understand.
Our Services
We offer a selection of consultancy services and website accessibility audits. These allow service providers to make the necessary changes to improve accessibility. This is done by asking disabled experts to report on their engagement with the client or their services. ( website) They can then suggest ways that can improve their experiences.
Our Team & Associates
Our team comes from a multitude of backgrounds, spread internationally and with a range of disabilities We have found that using disabled experts to find out what works and what does not gives a wider understanding for businesses/ organizations to build inclusive services such as websites.
Website Accessibility Services
We have a number of disabled people/associates available for compliance testing to assist in the user validation phases of projects. We can supply human resources in various ways to meet your compliance requirements. These include a full project lifecycle delivery for website accessibility strategies.
Consultancy
Whether you are implementing a new project or are in need of help with an existing one, we can provide assistance with planning, upgrading and also the delivery processes of existing projects. We can supply experts to provide a detailed analysis of your existing website and information structure as well as auditing the progress of any projects you might currently be involved in. We can also help if you are just looking to improve the accessibility and usability of your website.
Legal requirements
In the United Kingdom, the government is adopting WC3 Priority AA as best practice for any website. (To find out more, please click here)