Availability

The aim of availability is designing concerning the widest circle of users. We think that availability is a part of Universal Design conception.

Universal design provides:

  1. Equal treatment of all users
  2. Flexible use, a user can use the product comfortable
  3. Intuitive use and usefulness of a product
  4. Clear communication with user
  5. Tolerance for user’s mistakes
  6. Comfortable use of a product
  7. Adopting to user’s dimensions, providing comfortable space for working with a product

Universal Design makes using a product easy for all groups of people; we concern especially:

  1. Elderly people
  2. Children
  3. Blind and sand-blind users
  4. Users with visual impairment
  5. Users with limited manual abilities
  6. Mobile platform users (phones, pda, smartphones)
  7. Users of non-standard devices (web TV, voice web)

Availability is required by the UE and Polish laws. The following laws oblige public benefit institution to creating available WWW services:

  1. Constitution of Republic of Poland (including article 32 and 69)
  2. Act on access to public information (from 6.09.2000)
  3. Act on informatization of the activity of the subject realizing public duties (from 17.07.2005)
  4. Disabled Persons Charter (Resolution of Sejm of Republic of Poland from 1.08.1997)

Moreover, all the organisational units of UE countries are obliged of the rule of eEurope 2002 to provide access to their services without discrimination against the users.
Increasing accessibility influences positively the company image as a social responsible and the position of WWW service in search engines.

We offer availability analysis, developing a plan of increasing availability, universal design.