Choose Jim Byrne & Associates if you are looking for the expert in accessible web design and development.

I am passionate about trying to ensure my clients websites are accessible to the widest possible audience. An accessible website is a search engine friendly website; one of the most important 'blind' visitor to any website is Google.

For example, by concentrating on accessibility and adhering to web standards, the Glasgow West End Website was developed into a website that attracts over 300,000 visitors every month.

• Author of 60 hot to touch Accessible Web Design tips - the tips no web developer can live without! And two other books related to accessible web design.
• Joint author of Standards for Disability Information and Advice Provision in Scotland: Making Websites Accessible (November 2002) Second edition co-written with Eva Bolanders, published in 2007 by Scottish Accessible Information Forum.
• Web developer and accessible web design consultant since 1996.
• Director and founder of the worldwide Guild of Accessible Web Designers.
• Identified as one of Scotland's 'movers and shakers in e-commerce in Scotland' for work in the area of Web accessibility (NB Magazine, 2001).
• Developer of the award winning not-for-profit project, The Making Connections Unit (MCU). The MCU won an award in the equal access category of the Global Bangemann Award; a challenge by the City of Stockholm for cities of the world to show their finest information technology projects.
• Experienced trainer - former university Lecturer and Trainer with The Wellbeing Initiative; a training organisation set up to help disabled people get back into work. Specialist in accessible web development, web accessibility auditing and training.
• Author of the Guild of Accessible Web Designers accessible web design training course which covers every Priority 1 and 2 Web Content Accessibility Guidelines checkpoints.

Get in touch with me today if your site is in need of a re-design. Get in touch now if you have a web design or web development project you need done.

Examples of clients I have worked with in the voluntary, education, public and private sector

Local Government and councils

• Fife Council - Accessible Web Design Training
• Glasgow City Council, Social Work Department Accessible Web Design Training and web accessibility audits
• Forfar Council - Accessible Web Design Training
• East Dunbartonshire Council, Social Work Department
• Clackmannanshire Council Accessible Web Design and CSS training course for web developers
• Anne McGuire MP for Stirling

Education Sector

• University of Southampton. Consultancy in relation to redesign for Social Policy and Social Work website
• Glasgow Caledonian University Website. Numerous research project websites and content management system training.
• Strathclyde University Special Needs Service. Website development
• Napier University. Designed and delivered 10 week course on accessible web design.
• Glasgow University - websites for research projects

Voluntary Sector Organisations

• Centre for Independent Living in Glasgow
• The Wellbeing Initiative
• Scottish Accessible Information Forum Consultancy and author of Standards publication
• The Centre for Womens' Health in Glasgow
• Scottish Consumer Council
• One Plus
• Glasgow Organisation of Disabled People
• Scottish Human Services
• Opening: providing training and employment opportunities to disabled people
• Glasgow Association for Mental Health
• Enable
• Prince's Royal Trust Network of Information Officers
• Barlarnark Disability Unit
• The Alpha Project
• The Kelvinbank Resources Centre
• Cue and Review - recording service for the blind
• The Lothian Centre for Integrated Living
• Scottish Healthy Choices Awards Scheme
• The Coalition of Carers in Scotland
• The Rosemount Project
• Worldwoman