Accessibility consultancy that gets results
Our Latest News:
Hot Off the Press - our latest thoughts can be found on our Accessibility Field Notes blog.
Our News Archive:
July 2006 - Communis were pleased to become the new supplier to Future Marketing. We are building them an online video judging system capable of handling gigabytes of data each day.
March 2006 - And the winner is.... Communis! In March 2006, Communis received the Visionary Design Awards Special Award for Innovation for our work on SMURF. The awards are the UK website accessibility 'Oscars', judged and awarded by the National Library for the Blind.
October 2005 - We've moved! Please note our new address. While we were in the mood for moving, we have switched the hosting of this website to a server which allows syndication of our Accessibility Field Notes blog, as featured on our new front page.
September 2005 - Work continues towards the public release of the Incident Decision Tree, an online decision-making tool we have developed for the National Patient Safety Agency, with the final rounds of QA Testing and approval from the external stakeholders reference group.
August 2005 - Our StudentInvestor 2006 goes live for academic year 2005 - 2006, with a new look, and new sponsors, but the same award-nominated accessibility.
July 2005 - The WebSMURF system, an implementation of our accessible GIS system, goes live. The WebSMURF system is a cut down version of a full desktop system that was developed for an urban river management project. It can be used to find out information about the rivers Tame and Rea in the West Midlands, right here in your browser without any special programs on your computer.
June 2005 - The Go Shop Direct site goes live, complete with our accessible WCAG AA+ compliant template.
May 2005 - we are proud to deliver a CSS-based design for Jim Thatcher's new site. We are also busily working with Invention Media to provide fully accessible, cross-browser templates for their SpinGyro web management system.
April 2005 - CD-ROM slideshow delivered for the Environment Agency, optimised for JAWS and Window-Eyes screen readers. We also provide another client complex, accessible templates for a new shop design - more information as soon as the site goes live!
March 2005 - Communis commissioned to build an accessible web application -- the Incident Decision Tree v.2 -- for the National Patient Safety Agency.
February 2005 - Communis begin an Accessible Online Mapping interface for the Environment Agency.
January 2005 - Our latest research project is underway - Accessible Community Involvement.
December 2004 - Communis help Royal Mail with the accessibility of their postcode checker.
November 2004 - ProShare Student Investor gets over 9 million hits, and a nomination for the Visionary Design Awards.
October 2004 - Communis produce ProShare Student Investor. Over 1000 Schools enter!
September 2004 - Communis provide accessibility consultancy for Colgate Palmolive and Leicester County Council.
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Communis Ltd
Hillmarton House, Ridgeway, Frome, BA11 4NT
Tel: +44 (0)1373 836476
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