Web Development for UK Businesses

At a glance

Time difference

India is 4.5 hours ahead in winter, 5.5 in summer — around four hours of daily overlap

Cookie rules

PECR requires consent before non-essential cookies are set — a banner that logs a preference while scripts already fired does not comply

Accessibility

WCAG 2.2 AA built in from design, because procurement treats it as pass-or-fail rather than as a nice-to-have

Overlap

Around four hours of live overlap every working day — your morning is our afternoon

Hosting

UK or EU regions where residency is required, decided during architecture rather than after launch

Invoicing

GBP or USD. As a non-UK supplier our invoices carry no UK VAT — normally a reverse charge on your side

Handover

Source code, design files, credentials and documented data flows on final payment

Accessibility as a procurement gate

UK public sector bodies operate under accessibility regulations, and that requirement propagates outward: if you supply them, or hope to, your own digital services get examined. Large private-sector buyers increasingly ask the same questions, and universities, NHS-adjacent organisations and charities almost always do.

The practical target is WCAG 2.2 AA. The failures that cause a bid to fail are consistent and unremarkable — colour contrast chosen for brand rather than legibility, form inputs with no programmatically associated label, content that cannot be reached or operated by keyboard, dynamic updates a screen reader never announces, and images carrying meaning with decorative alternative text.

Built in from the design stage this adds modestly to a project. Retrofitted after a design is signed off it usually means revisiting the colour palette and the component library — which is to say, revisiting the two things the sign-off was supposed to settle. That is why we raise it during design rather than during testing.

The integrations UK business sites actually need

UK web projects tend to share a set of integrations that rarely come up elsewhere. Address lookup by postcode, which UK users expect and which materially reduces failed deliveries and support contacts. Companies House lookup for B2B sign-up flows, so a business customer types a company number rather than filling in six fields you then have to verify.

Payment providers popular in the UK, and for subscription businesses, Direct Debit — which behaves nothing like a card payment. It has a mandate setup process, a notification requirement before collection, a several-day settlement window, and a guarantee scheme that allows the payer to reclaim a payment. Modelling that as "a card charge with a delay" produces reconciliation problems within a couple of months.

Each of these is routine when planned and disproportionately annoying when discovered late, because they tend to affect data models rather than screens — a customer record designed around a card token does not gracefully acquire a Direct Debit mandate lifecycle afterwards.

How the project runs

1. 1

   Audit what currently fires

   For an existing site we inventory every script that loads before consent, because that list is usually longer than anyone expects and it defines the work.

2. 2

   Set the accessibility target at design

   Contrast, focus visibility, keyboard order and labelling are decided while designing, where changing them is free rather than a brand decision.

3. 3

   Build consent that genuinely gates

   Non-essential scripts do not load until consent is given, the choice is recorded with timestamp and notice version, and withdrawal takes effect rather than being stored.

4. 4

   Plan UK-specific integrations early

   Postcode lookup, Companies House and Direct Debit mandate lifecycles are designed into the data model rather than added to finished screens.

5. 5

   Use the daily overlap deliberately

   A standing slot in your morning with one named contact each side, so anything blocking work is resolved the same day rather than the next.

6. 6

   Publish an honest accessibility statement

   Produced from a real audit listing what conforms, what does not and when it will be fixed — a document that survives someone actually checking it.

What you get on every project

• A written scope with fixed milestones before any development starts — no open-ended hourly billing.
• A staging URL you can check at any time, so progress is visible rather than reported.
• One named point of contact, not a ticket queue.
• Invoicing in GBP, under Easywork Solutions Private Limited.
• Full source code, design files and hosting credentials transferred to you on final payment.