Comply with current accessibility legislation

and open your site up to everyone

Our ClearText Business Engine automatically generates an alternate view of any web page in your site. ‘ClearText’ enables users with sight or movement disabilities to navigate a site easily. This can be via enhanced or simplified text, or by enabling the use of a screen reader.

Designed with the assistance of The Royal National College for the Blind, ClearText can easily help to address a pressing legal issue for web site owners. If you use the features we make available to you, then the pages should comply with disability standards. The advanced system architecture in Beyond allows the page to be switched on the fly to an alternate view. You can navigate the whole site whilst in this alternate view.

Some other systems now offer a ‘text only mode’ but this is inferior to how we address the issue. Other systems will simply ‘parse’ through a single page and strip out everything that isn’t text. What you end up with is a text only page, but one with no other intelligence.

Our ClearText pages are loaded with code to help screen readers such as JAWS navigate the whole site in ClearText mode. One of the coolest features is that even our e-Commerce engine is able to be used in ClearText mode!

If you or your company operates a website in the UK, you should be aware of Part III of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995. Since 1st October 2004, it has become unlawful for websites to discriminate against disabled Internet surfers.

In the USA, Section 508 and other emerging standards are enforcing similar alternate views of website content.