Testimonials from Certified Partners

As Marketing’s current “Digital Agency of the Year”, Agency Republic has a track record of delivering commercial innovation and creativity to our clients. We strive to ensure that clients benefit from every opportunity that the digital industry gives them and making sure that their Web sites are accessible is a central part of everything we do for them.

The Segala-Certified Partner Programme is going to significantly help us deliver a full accessibility service to clients; it will help them be audited and show that they have been certified.

- Adam Johnston, Technical Director, Agency Republic

At Corporate Edge accessibility is a given. All the websites we create are designed and developed to the requirements of WAI guidelines. We recommend Priority level 2 as standard but in many cases believe Priority level 3 to be more appropriate.

Working with Segala has helped Corporate Edge deliver best practice accessible web projects for our FTSE 100 clients. We have worked together in successful partnership to enlist, educate and engage our clients on key accessibility issues. The introduction of the Segala Trustmark has inspired us to create well designed and compliant websites. We are proud to become a Chartered member of the Segala-Certified Partner programme.

- Richard Coope, Head of Online, Corporate Edge

Cornish Web Services have always believed in providing accessible Web sites. In addition to conforming to existing disability legislation, accessible sites also offer huge marketing benefits in terms of search engine visibility.

Automated checking tools are a help, but they are insufficient to show which Web sites are accessible. We therefore welcome the Segala-Certified scheme and the Trustmark as they will help to clearly demonstrate that a site has been certified and is accessible.

- Dr R E Cornish, Director, Cornish WebServices

Access for all is the cornerstone of our design and development philosophy and partnering with Segala will help us to inform and educate our clients in this important area.

- Ivan Slade, Director, Cybernetic Systems, Cybernetic Systems

Industry Standards are an important part of everyday life. Getting them right is essential. eoncorp strongly believes that accessibility standards are vital and that their implementation is critical to form a base from which we can build and enhance all user experiences. They enable us to deliver greater satisfaction for user and client alike.

Joining the Segala-Certified Programme not only allows us to start auditing and awarding sites with certificates and the Trustmark based on accessibility standards, it also helps our clients to clearly demonstrate that they take their responsibilities towards accessibility seriously.

- Erin Hales, Founder & Creative Director, eoncorp

iConcertina Creative is a full service agency providing digital communications and custom web tool solutions to clients the world over. We work closely with our clients to deliver their business objectives, fulfilling the needs of all their customers & stakeholders irrelevant of ability.

We fully support Segala’s approach to promoting accessibility certification and will be endorsing it as a measure of accessibility & best practice to our clients.

- Dean Russell, Client Services Director, iConcertina

ilikecake limited are proud to only make accessible websites which are compliant with W3C WAI WCAG 1.0. Offering our clients an external auditing service has been one of our business goals for some time.

Working with Segala, an industry leader in the area, will allow us to inculcate greater trust with many of our clients with what to date has been an intangible service. That the Segala Trustmark is also machine-readable and may lead to higher search engine rankings for our clients is also a huge benefit.

- Vivienne Trulock, Senior Accessibility Consultant, ilikecake

Segala is a great program as it reinforces our committment towards delivering websites which are compliant to global standards and hence benefit our clients in terms of website usability, visibility and compatibility over various mediums.

- Abhishek Rungta, Founder / CEO, Indus Net Technologies

Joining the Segala-Certified™ Partner Programme means Iridium Interactive can now deliver properly audited and certified client Web sites.

It will help us keep up-to-date with and understand the very latest developments in accessible Web site design, enabling us to educate our staff and clients, and making sure that we produce sites that are compliant with the latest international accessibility standards.

- Arun Kumar, Vice President, Iridium Interactive Limited

Isle Interactive is a full service digital agency based in Ely, Cambridgeshire committed to developing standards compliant, highly interactive web systems.

Isle Interactive strives to offer its clients best practice in every area of digital design & development. Joining the Segala Partner Programme will help us to continually deliver accessible, user-friendly websites to our clients.

- Richard Copping, Director, Isle Interactive

itineris is a digital development and marketing company that uses innovative ideas and technology to help clients reach and interact with customers, improve long-term growth and maximise revenues.

We’re straight-talking, sharp thinking and focus on clear delivery. We believe working within the Segala programme will enable us to continue to deliver fully accessible and highly usable digital solutions.

- Aleks Szymanski, Managing Director, itineris Limited

Librios is committed to usability and accessibility in the websites derived from our collaborative content management system and, for many of our clients, particularly in the healthcare sector, compliance with accessibility standards is essential.

We are proud to be a partner of Segala because the Segala Trustmark will be seen by them as an important reinforcement of the highest implementation of these standards and I’m very enthusiastic about promoting the benefits of our affiliation as widely as I can.

- Hal Robinson, Director of Commercial Development, Librios

Martin & Charles Webstandards Consulting Ltd. is the first web accessibility and usability consultancy company in Hungary. Joining the Segala-Certified Partner Programme will allow us to start auditing and awarding sites with certificates and Trustmarks based on international accessibility standards. I believe that this will be a great market opportunity for us.

- Károly Szántai, Founder & Principal Consultant, Martin & Charles Webstandards Consulting

At Modem Media we work with all our clients to fully understand their customers and what accessibility requirements are needed for each individual project, whether it be a simple landing page or a full secure banking solution. We understand our client’s dilemma of wanting to provide cutting edge creative and technical solutions while ensuring customer accessibility and being restrained by both time and budgets.

We whole heartedly support Segala’s approach to Web Accessibility certification and are happy to recommend it to our clients as a best in class method for ensuring the optimum level of content accessibility certification for each of our projects.

- Scott Bradley, Commercial Director, Modem Media

We are a new agency with a vision to uphold usability and accessibility standards as we strive to design and build Websites that comply to at least the WAI level AA compliance guidelines.To this end, working with Segala affords us access to vital resources. These include tools that will help us to offer our clients a complete service as well as ensure that their websites are properly designed.

We are indeed happy to acknowledge Segala as an obvious choice, particularly as they are the first company to offer a machine-readable Trustmark for accessibility.We are also convinced that we can always rely on Segala’s support as we strive to better educate our clients regarding the need to develop accessible websites.

- Nathalie Vu-Van-Toan, Director, Raspberry Frog

Reactive have an ongoing commitment to accessibility, and the Segala Trustmark will support this and help to make accessibility more tangible for our clients. A key challenge for our industry is educating clients on the importance of accessibility, Segala are active in helping to address this challenge, providing an ongoing benefit to the interactive industry, our clients and the public who visit the Web sites we build.

The Trustmark initiative reflects Segala’s innovative approach to accessibility compliance, one that is based on extremely sound experience. We are proud to be Charter Members of the Segala-Certified Partner Programme, and look forward to partnering in its success.

- Tim O’Neill, Managing Director UK, Reactive Media

satiworks London provides optimised & convergent marketing solutions for our clients. Accessibility plays a key part in helping us to fulfil this role and it is fantastic that we now have Segala as an impartial reference point by which we can help educate our clients, and which will serve to keep us up-to-date of new accessibility guidelines.

The Segala-Certified Programme and Trustmark are long overdue in an industry where accessibility guidelines have been noted but so rarely implemented. The easily recognisable Trustmark logo on sites will help raise this and ultimately ensure that all sites can be accessed by as many users as possible.

- Sam Dunham, Partner, satiworks

SearchPath are committed to providing solutions that include Web accessibility.

We believe that the Web is for everyone, and the Segala-Certified™ Partner Programme is going to really help us, our clients, and the industry in general, improve Web accessibility standards. We are proud to be members of the Segala programme.

- Rob Andrews, Director, SearchPath

STEEL fully endorses Segala’s stance on web accessibility and welcomes the establishment of a de facto mark that, with time and exposure, web users will come to know and trust.STEEL employs accessibility standards in conjunction with a strong user-focussed communication methodology, gimmick-free usability enhancements and a solid, ‘layered’ approach to page delivery based on best-practice web-standards.This defines the core of STEEL’s ‘maximum visibility’ approach to website and web-app design. It helps any website achieve its business goals by improving the experience and performance for every site user (including mobile users) as well as significantly improving search-engine visibility.

- Rob Dinsdale, Managing Partner, STEEL

Working with Segala has meant we have changed our policy on our development work, and are developing a code of Best Practice. As standard, all our sites are built to WAI Level II compliance, and we strive to ensure that compliant websites can be and will be well designed. With the backing of the Segala Trustmark we are even better placed to educate our clients as to the benefits and the need to obtain certification.

Working with Segala allows us to better educate our clients around the need to deliver well designed, highly functional, accessible websites, and gives them peace of mind that when a claim is made that something is accessible, it really is!

- Phil Parker, Creative Director, Suburb Design

I am pleased to partner with Segala to increase our client’s confidence in our accessibility offering by providing them with an independent review and certification process.

- Kimberly Byers, Head of Experience Design, Tamar

Accessibility is core to most of our clients, and they set themselves ambitious goals for compliance. Understandably, clients that put such efforts to ensuring their site is accessible, also recognition for their efforts.

We are delighted to partner with Segala as we believe the Segala Trustmark provides excellent, highly credible recognition based on stringent best practice for accessibility. I am confident that our clients who attain the Trustmark certification will benefit from it.

- Emma Kirk, Strategic Director, User Vision

Wandsoft are committed to supply innovative e-business and content management solutions that allow the management of accessible websites. Our software is platform and database independent. Ensuring that content is accessible makes it even more future proof.

The Segala Trustmark provides the excellence in accessibility certification. We are delighted to partner with Segala to provide accessibility certification for clients of our e-Business software.

- Claude Saulnier, CEO, Wandsoft Ltd

When we help customers improve the usability of their websites, we also try to improve their accessibility.

The Segala-Certified Partner Programme is a quick and easy way for us to start certifying customers’ websites based on our own existing audits. Awarding them with the Trustmark will help to not only boost their profile, but that of accessibility overall.

- Trenton Moss, Director, Webcredible

We do a lot of work for clients who look for certification from an authority in this field. We believe that our partnership with Segala coupled with our knowledge and expertise in building accessible e-commerce solutions will be valuable to our clients.

We strongly believe that awarding our clients a Segala accessibility Certificate and Segala-Certified™ Trustmark will be an added benefit that demonstrates their commitment to the highest standards of Accessible web design.

- Amit Bhaskar, Director, Webmirer