Making your website accessible for everyone
It's about making sure that no one feels left out when they visit your website
Web accessibility is just like hosting a big party that you want everyone to feel comfortable at. It’s about designing, developing, and editing websites in a way that ensures everyone, regardless of their physical abilities, situational challenges, or even slow internet speeds, can easily interact with and access all the awesome stuff your website has to offer.
When done right, it’s like opening the doors wide and saying, “Come on in, everyone’s invited!”
There’s plenty more reasons
When websites are accessible, it empowers people with disabilities to navigate and interact with the digital world independently. No barriers here!
Inclusivity rocks
Boost your reach
Good vibes only
It boosts your SEO
Legal eagle
Stay ahead of the curve
Customer satisfaction 101
Brand reputation
It's just the right thing to do
Web content accessibility guidelines (WCAG) 2.1
Accessible websites will be built to New Zealand accessibility standards and web content accessibility guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 for an optimal and inclusive user experience.
This includes:
- Making sure colour contrast between text and background meets minimum requirements.
- Ensuring that hyperlink names are meaningful.
- Including appropriate alternative text for all non-text content.
- Ensuring there is a language element on each page.
- Including captioning and transcripts for multimedia.
- Making forms and organisational documents, such as annual reports, accessible.
For more information visit W3 and Web Accessibility Standard 1.1.
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We have been so impressed with the services that Grow My Business have provided. We had a very tight timeframe for a new website to be designed but despite this they delivered on every level. We are so happy and very proud of our new website. Our ideas were considered throughout, and they always had a lot of useful advice for changes along the way. As a result, our online bookings are up already. The continued help from them is very reassuring. I would not hesitate to recommend them in the future.
I recently engaged Iona at Grow My Business to build my new website. Iona did a wonderful job! Not only did she bring my ideas to life, but she has really helped me showcase my brand. I love my new website and I’m grateful to have such a knowledgeable, generous person backing me and my business!
We are delighted with our new website designed and delivered by Iona and her team. We chose a local
provider as we didn’t want a generic website and wanted to have input. We also wanted a site that was easy to navigate and could show the range of products we stock. There were specific challenges along the way such as integrating our POS (MYOB RM) to reflect real time stock levels. We can also select and upload new products directly from our POS. The website is easy to update and is attracting lots more orders than our old website.
I cannot recommend Iona and her team at Grow My Business enough. I wouldn’t hesitate to use her again should I need to. We wanted a professional, smart, user-friendly website and this was delivered in an extremely short time-frame. Iona is highly-knowledgeable, friendly, relaxed, and is able to quickly understand what you’re after, make helpful suggestions, and delivers – and is fun to work with! She provides very easy to understand succinct videos to refer to for working on the website going forward. Thank you so much Iona.
We have worked with Iona for a number of years on our business Getting Lost. We have experienced rapid, unpredictable growth which has required a huge amount of agility and responsiveness from Grow My Business. Despite the many requests, often without an obvious answer, the team have always been there to help us.
Iona and the team recently helped us to redesign our website for Getting Lost. We’d worked with Iona on the initial design of our website a few years ago but our business had changed dramatically (as has the world) since then and a major overhaul was needed. Iona was really collaborative (not only with us but with others that we were working with too) and listened to what we wanted and built a website that we absolutely adore but most importantly has seen immediate results. She met our deadlines and was adaptive and calm when the inevitable issues arose.
In the 3 weeks post launch of the new website we have seen a 13% increase in order value, 41% increase in e-commerce conversion rate, 230% increase in users and a 319% increase in sales.
I can’t recommend Iona and the team more highly…
Grow my business has gone above and beyond in creating a website that accurately showcases our business and is incredibly user-friendly.
The GMB team, took the time to listen to and magnify our ideas.
We couldn’t be happier with the final product and would like to extend our sincerest thanks to the entire team for their exceptional work.
Needed a website for my weight loss business and Iona was recommended by a close friend. I found Iona to be very precise and efficient in all our dealings at time going over and above working after hours to ensure I was happy with everything that was going on. She kept me well informed right the way through and nothing was an issue (especially me changing my mind around content etc). Loved her custom sense of design, the ease of use and amount of control I have been given to manage my own site, and basically one of best website builders I have come into contact with. Would highly recommend to anyone looking for this type of professional service!!
Iona was ABSOLUTLEY FANTASTIC! Supporting me through the whole process, nothing was ever a problem for her, and she executed every request promptly and efficiently! I would 100% recommend.
I was referred to Iona by another business and I couldn’t have asked for anyone better. We had a quick chat on the phone and she took all my info and got on with my website and left me to what I’m good at. I felt this was invaluable, quick and easy. She is super efficient and had Simply Organised’s website up and running in no time at all. It looks amazing and I can’t thank her enough. Highly recommend.
A great experience from start to finish working with Grow My Business. I needed a small website turned around really quickly and the team delivered on time and on budget. They walked me through the process and answered all my questions in language I could understand. Really happy with the end result and would work with them again in a heartbeat.
My old website that I built with Iona a few years ago needed an upgrade, so it was just natural to go back to her with my new one. I knew what I wanted but needed help with designing it and Iona with her team did that with ease. She outlined the pages and structure and guided me through the process of getting the content for it. Iona patiently worked with me to choose the pictures that would represent me and the feel I wanted for the new website. Iona provided me with a video that explains the steps I need to take to make changes and add new blogs and recipes. The feedback I get from my clients is “a fresh and easy to navigate website” – exactly what we wanted to achieve. Thanks Iona and team for your professionalism and patience to make all the changes I requested.
We spend a good period of time looking for web developers/designers to assist us with creating our new site, plus copying the site over for our Australian distributor. Iona and her team at grow my business excelled. Out of the many companies we spoke with, Grow my business stood out.
Iona came across calmly, professionally, transparent, cost effective and great at articulating ideas. Our site, both here and in Australia are brilliant, can’t thank them enough for the development and their ongoing support.