Standards Compliant Websites

Every website we build uses W3C valid XHTML and CSS and complies with all BOBBY priority 1 and 2 accessibility guidelines. This makes financial sense as well as being ethically correct since it will:
  • simplify the future updating of the site
  • reduce your bandwidth costs by making pages more efficient to download
  • improve the user experience by making your site quicker
  • improve search engine rankings
We always seek to balance a clients design requirements with the need to adhere to the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Adherence to these guidelines will ensure that you meet you obligations under the Disability Discrimination Act.

Cross platform and cross browser compatibility are also key to providing an accessible website – standards compliance ensures that a site will display correctly on various incarnations of Windows and Mac OS as well as in all popular browser software without the need for multiple versions of the site to be created.

Accessibility also feeds into the graphical look of your site – consistent use of colour and layout coupled with clear and logical page division will make navigating the site a pleasure for all visitors.  These elements should also degrade gracefully such that when viewed in a non standards compliant browser on an old OS the semantics of the markup will ensure that your content is presented in a logical and ordered fashion.

How Can Web Standards Help Your Business?

You can take advantage of our years of experience by letting us do a one off fixed fee accessibility audit of your site.  We will produce a clearly written report outlining the areas of your site that can be improved and detailing the direct business benefits of doing so.

The price of this valuable analysis is just £50 + VAT - should you commission us to do the work suggested in the report then this fee will be credited to your account! To take advantage of this service please call 01926 330135 or get in touch via our contact page.