provide engaging, professional, accessible, content managed websites to UK charities completely free of charge.
was formed in 2006 to help UK charities develop accessible and engaging online presences.We believe there is massive scope for improvement in the way people access and understand the message of the vast majority of UK charities through the internet. Because these charities are helping others, we believe we should help them. For this reason, we do not charge for our services.
Our team of developers and designers have between them spent more than 20 years working at the highest levels of the web development industry. The experience gained through our involvement in an array of challenging, high-profile commercial projects is an invaluable asset we are determined to share.
We create professional, engaging and - most importantly - accessible websites for UK charities that can be easily updated and expanded by the charities themselves through an easy-to-use content management system (CMS).
Our websites will reward your site visitors with a dynamic/lively and mix of words, pictures, video and audio that you can change when you want. This will add a new dimension to how they engage with you, letting you communicate with them in a new way.
All the websites we design are:
Free.
Easy to update and maintain using any computer with an internet connection and an up-to-date web browser. With a website created by Usable Websites you can add images, links, audio, video or a number of other file types with little or no technical knowledge. We will show you how to use the CMS as part of our service.
Standards compliant. Your website will be usable in the widest range of web browsers in addition to being optimised for mobile phones, PDAs, search engines and screen readers. Standards compliance also ensures compatibility with future web browsers.Accessible. Our sites are optimised to be read with a screen reader and all come with text resizing and a choice of fonts as standard.
We can also advise you on how to generate content using clear and plain English. We are highly experienced in producing material for people with learning disabilities, low literacy levels or for whom English is a second language. We can advise you on how to make your information accessible to the broadest range of your target audience.
Contact us if you think Usable Websites can assist your organisation.
As a charity we believe strongly in open collaboration, and as such we work extensively with open-source software to build and host our websites. This extends to us releasing our own software under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Scotland License.This means our clients are free to move their websites, including the CMS, to any other host, at any time, free of charge.
AGM 2008 ...
Our 2008 AGM report can be downloaded at the link below:
Usable Websites AGM 2008 (pdf)
AGM 2007 ...
A report from our first agm is available to download if you would like more information - Annual Report 2007 (pdf).