Accessibility and Web Standards

Web standards attempt to make the web a better place for users and developers. We aim to employ the 'vast majority' of the philosophies in these standards to make our websites:

• Easy to index by search engines
• Accessible to visually-impaired users
• Clean and easy to maintain
• Ensure compatibility in standards-compliant browsers

So why not all the standards?

Quite often web designers and developers have to deal with the non-uniform nature of the web. Different web browsers often display (render) web pages differently (or incorrectly) even when web standards are used. A typical example (and the best example) of this is Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer causes web designers a multitude of technical problems A simple web search will return countless articles written by designs and security experts that condemn Internet Explorer. that often prevent web standards from effective use. We are often left to make decisions that go against web standards for the sake of compatibility.

We carry out testing in many popular browsers before deployment.

If you have any accessibility or standards compliance concerns then please contact us to discuss them further.