graduate-jobs.com Launches Accessibility Site

June 17, 2010 - PRLog -- W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) aims to encourage web developers to make their sites more user-friendly for those with disabilities by publishing a range of guidelines to help with the development process.

graduate-jobs.com’s development team’s determination to meet the guidelines means the new site is easy to use for the blind and partially sighted due to its complete compatibility with screen readers – software that describes the various elements of a website to the user as they scroll through it.

The AA Accessibility rating awarded by W3C makes graduate-jobs.com the only job board in the UK with such a credential and therefore easily accessible to users with disabilities.

As W3C say, conforming to their guidelines not only makes a website more user friendly for those with disabilities but “benefits all users” . The site’s fresh interface not only looks better but improves greatly on navigation and ease of use.

“Adding graduate jobs (http://www.graduate-jobs.com/) to the site and CV searching has never been easier than it is now on graduate-jobs.com” said Operations Director Gerry Wyatt, “plus we’ve got some great new features which make both the graduates’ and the recruiters’ experience much smoother and crucially, more effective.”

The new site is a huge step forwards for graduate-jobs.com and the graduate careers (http://www.graduate-jobs.com/gco/graduate-careers-uk.jsp) market,” says Gerry, “It gives recruiters even more power to not only pinpoint the best and most suitable candidates but also adds great value to their diversity and inclusion agendas. At the same time this move increases significantly the job board service available to users with disabilities.”

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About graduate-jobs.com

graduate-jobs.com is the largest independent jobs board in the UK. Founded in 1999, graduate-jobs.com has been helping to launch graduate careers by providing services for graduates and prospective employers alike. graduate-jobs.com has recently been awarded the AA Accessibility rating, making the site far easier for the blind and partially-sighted.