Benefits for clients

• Has mainstream application and appeal - is not a disability specific tool
• Quick ROI (return on investment)
• Increases comprehension of website content and market share
• Not requiring specialized software 
• Automated service – links automatically update with your website's content
• Works alongside other accessibility tools
• Customized service that’s easy to integrate and maintain
• Scaleable (see Packages)
• User-led product refined by industry heavy weights
  (GLA, DRC, Mencap, RNIB, Becta and LMU’s Accelerator)
• Exceeds minimal website accessibility standards
• Enables website commissioners to exceed legal obligations
• Delivers on 2 of the Mayor’s (London) Economic Strategy Objectives (ESO) within the People theme:
  - tackling barriers to employment
  - reducing disparities in labour market outcomes between groups by reducing comprehension barriers

Usability

• You choose which section(s) of your website uses WordBank
• You control which words are WordBanked
• Your site visitors control WordBank with an on/off  button
• You choose which definitions you want to add to your site
• Pop-ups don’t take users away from your site
• Pop-ups emulate your brand
• Pop-up links automatically update with your website's content

Benefits for website visitors

• Enables people to make informed choices
• Provides immediate access to word definitions
• Offers multiple methods of presenting the definitions – text, animation and audio
• No need to follow alphabetical lists of words as in dictionaries (which many people with learning difficulties find difficult)
• Site user does not need any training or specialist software to use the product
• No software download or set-up required
• Will not interfere with other accessibility tools
• Is compatible with specialist software available for people with visual impairments

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