Amaxus automatically helps ensure your websites comply with the DDA

Box UK has unparalleled experience in developing W3C/Government compliant websites, adhering to global industry standards and guidelines. Amaxus, Box UK's XML content management system, enables your sites to automatically comply with the Disability and Discrimination Act, 1995 (DDA).

The DDA effectively places responsibility upon suppliers of goods and services to provide reasonable adjustment and, importantly, to remove any barriers that could result in discrimination. Since 1999 the DDA has covered public facing websites and internal systems.

Box UK implemented the first UK government website to be fully XML and XSL driven, enabled through a bespoke Content Management System.  The Virtual Teacher Centre (VTC) site also conforms to WAI accessibility guidelines, and implements advanced accessibility features such as keyboard shortcuts and a dynamic text-only version.

Since the VTC, Box UK has continued to develop and promote government and W3C standards, through close interaction with our clients.  The TRE (see resources below), a sister site to the VTC, employs the power of XML to output the site to seven different channels, including an XML feed for the governments £300 million+ Curriculum Online project (for which Box UK also developed the primary metadata-entry application).

The National Maritime Museum site, developed to NOF and e-GIF standards through Box UK’s Amaxus Content Management System, has recently won two highly-regarded accessibility awards, and is currently short-listed for a third.

The Amaxus Content Management System is fully configured to support government and industry (W3C) standards, and has been developed with an extensible architecture (XML, XSL, Web services) to allow the adherence to future standards.