Accessableqld.com Historically, many businesses have been reluctant to offer wireless access in their offices due to the insecure nature of the technology. An often quoted example of security concerns are so called "car park snooping", where hackers sit in the car park of a business and use the wireless network to penetrate firewalls and access the targets network. The growth of the internet though has made access now almost mandatory in order for business to function. Guests to a site often need to be provided access to cloud applications such as salesforce.com and Google Docs or to web based demonstrations in order to support interaction and allow the business to function. The growth of tablet PCs, iPhones and other high end devices has also meant that Company executives are now demanding wireless internet connectivity as an essential 'must have' rather than a luxury. Wireless access to customers, contractors, visitors and Company employees can be provided easily and without compromising corporate network security using the latest generation of wireless technologies. A well thought out guest access portal improves business productivity; increases brand loyalty, improves staff satisfaction and eliminates the burden of supporting unplanned network access by guests (and staff) to perform essential business meetings. An accessibility audit involves an accessibility expert reviewing your site, highlighting all accessibility issues and providing recommendations for fixing them. The reviewer would typically use assistive software used by disabled web users (e.g. a screen reader) to effectively carry out the audit, along with the Web Accessibility Toolbar. You could hire an external accessibility consultancy to do this, but it's also possible to conduct the audit in-house. By reading through the W3C accessibility guidelines and attending a web accessibility training course (the latter to learn 'real-world' accessibility) you can gain a base level of accessibility knowledge. You should then be able to get your website up to a reasonable level of accessibility.
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