Retrofitting Case Study:Redesign of a University Website

My first real contact with accessibility came when I started in my position as Web Editor at the University of Salford in January 2001. As part of the responsibilities of my new jobf I started researching some of the legal requirements involving educational websites in the UK, inevitably coming across the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Act (SENDA) and the wider-reaching Disabilities Discrimination Act (DDA). From there, I delved further into the area of web accessibility. It soon became obvious that the University’s site, which had undergone a year-long redesign process just before I started, presented some funda- mental accessibility concerns that urgently needed to be addressed.