Clients
Here are some of our clients and the services we have provided to them.
Website Development
Our clients know that you don't have to compromise when combining an extremely attractive website with a high level of accessibility and functionality.
Speaking Volumes Online
Speaking Volumes Online was the 2006 winner of the prestigious Jodi award for accessibility within a low budget. A complex site with a high degree of functionality it was important to not only provide a visually pleasing design but also to develop a website that could be navigated easily by those using assistive technologies such as speech browsers. The website was tested for accessibility and usability using real people who use assistive technologies to access the internet.
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AT Dementia
The AT Dementia website aims to provide user-friendly information about assistive technology for people with dementia. A highly accessible, visually pleasing website with a high level of functionality, including a product database that allows visitors to compare products and add product reviews. The website underwent strict accessibility and usability testing and is now one of the most accessible product information websites on the net.
What they said
"Amanda has created for us a website that achieves everything we hoped for and much more besides. We are a voluntary organisation of modest size, operating within limited budget constraints, but now have a website that is beautifully designed, easy to use, professional in appearance and accessible. From the early design stages to the end testing, Amanda was responsive and helpful throughout."
Trent DSDC
Trent Dementia Services Development Centre is a not-for-profit organisation working to help the statutory, voluntary and independent sectors to improve the care they provide for people with dementia. Trent DSDC operate primarily (but not exclusively) in the East Midlands and aim to support individual practitioners, students and organisations large and small.
Horniman Museum
The Horniman Museum will be undergoing a complete website redesign in the autumn 2007 and required their website navigation to be restructured before the redesign and development begins. The Horniman Museum contracted Amanda Cano to restructure the navigation using known usability initiatives thereby making the navigation for the new website user-friendly and easy to use for all of their website visitors, from teachers who will use the website to find teaching materials for class visits to tourists visiting the museum.
What they said
"Amanda carried out an audit of our website looking specifically at the structure of the navigation. The report she provided was clear and concise and showed an in depth understanding of the content and nature of our site. The recommendations were easy to follow and to implement, leading to an immediate improvement in the user experience for our web visitors. We would recommend Amanda and would definitely use her services again."
Accessibility & Usability
Our clients have benefited from our extensive experience in accessibility and usability and we can provide testing services to help you make your website as user friendly as possible for everyone, including those that rely on assistive technologies such as speech browsers to access the internet.
Museum of London
We were commissioned by the Museum of London Group to provide accessibility and usability testing for 9 of the museum websites and micro-sites, including the Museum of London Group, Museum of London and Museum in Docklands.
What they said
"Amanda Cano carried out usability and accessibility audits of the Museum of London Group websites. The reports from the audit were produced very quickly and provided clear, easy to understand information about areas of failings and a number of actionable recommendations for change. The audit provided valuable insights into how we can improve the usability and accessibility of our websites."
Geffrye Museum
The Geffrye Museum website underwent strict accessibility and usability testing.
National Museums Liverpool
The National Museums Liverpool commissioned Amanda Cano to complete an accessibility report on their website. A number of pages and templates were selected for testing, inlcuding Flash and HTML games. The pages were tested against the new W3C WCAG2.0 accessibility guidelines. User testing was also conducted using a number of testers with various disabilities and assistive technologies.
What they said
Amanda provided a really thorough audit, on time and at a reasonable price. We wanted to test to WCAG 2.0, despite it still being in draft format, and Amanda able to accommodate. The user testing was especially useful - brought up a lot of general useability as well as accessibility issues. The staff training and audit template she provided mean that we are in a better position to carry forward the lessons learnt, and just being able to chat to someone who works on accessibility day in day out was really useful. All in all, a really good experience and one we would repeat for future projects.
London Transport Museum
The London Transport Museum have just launched a new website and commissioned Amanda Cano to complete an accessibility report and disabled user testing.
What they said
"Amanda recently carried out a main website, collections and shop site audit along with a disabled user testing report for London Transport Museum. The reports were produced quickly, were extremely thorough and proved value for money. When we needed to contact Amanda to clarify issues raised in the reports, she responded promptly and efficiently. The accessibility testing was especially constructive – and also served as an introduction for us into the types of accessibility issues we should consider when developing and designing current and future projects. Overall, we would definitely recommend Amanda and the service she provides. What’s more it will provide you with a real insight into the many complexities surrounding accessibility & usability issues for websites."
Website Maintenance
Maintaining a website can be time consuming and often means training staff to use a new system. We can take the pressure off by provide content management and website maintenance services.
RMT
The RMT trade union needed a large number of PDF documents turned into accessible HTML content and uploaded to their content management system within a tight deadline.
Parkside Housing Trust
The Parkside Housing Trust were going through internal changes and needed someone reliable to transfer content from their old website to their new content management led website.
The Refugee Legal Centre
The Refugee Legal Centre website was being redesigned and updated at the same time as their complicated office move and they needed to have someone knowledgable and reliable to transfer content to their new website using their content management system.
What they said
“Amanda has provided a service of the highest quality. We have found Amanda’s approach to our requests to be very efficient and her response fast. We are a charity and have limited resources for the redesign of a new website. We are extremely happy with the work Amanda has done. Our new website will now give our clients and other interested parties easy access to the information they may require. We would highly recommend Amanda’s work.”
The Migraine Trust
The Migraine Trust were going through a website redesign with a tight deadline and required someone trustworthy and knowlegable to transfer their existing content from their old website to the new website.
Information Prescriptions
Information Prescriptions are a partnership of Arthritis Care, Asthma UK, and Diabetes UK working with Hammersmith and Fulham PCT. Information Prescriptions are funded by the Department of Health to develop and test information prescriptions, informing the implementation of information prescriptions throughout the country.
The Business Design Centre
The Business Design Centre website was redesigned and a new content management system had been installed. The Business Design Centre needed help to get the new content on the site quickly and efficiently so it would be ready for their launch date
What they said
“It is no exaggeration to say that Amanda Cano saved the project of building of the Business Design Centre website which had run over schedule. On being recommended she started work immediately and went over and above the call of duty to working with me to build the front end of the site. She went out of her way to be helpful, always contactable and the work was done to an extremely high standard when time scales were really working against us. I would highly recommend Amanda to anyone looking for someone extremely reliable with both great expertise and ability. I would definitely call on her again!”