Accessible Web Design / development & build

Accessible web sites can still look great. We have expert knowledge in creating accessible yet creative and interesting web design.

If accessible web design is your requirement, we can check, test and validate for accessibitly.

Here are just some of the following requirements for accessible web design:

• Acknowledge W3C accessibility guidelines and adhere to these where appropriate
  
• Highly readable text, accessible images, and a clear and intuitive navigation
  
• Optimisation for non graphical browsers
  
• Site architecture separates content from formatting
  
• Layout tables and divs are used rather than frames
  
• Cross-platform sans-serif fonts such as Arial or Verdana are used
  
• Web Safe colour palette
  
• When using Flash a script is used to detect the presence of the Flash plugin and give the
  user the alternative to either download Flash or go directly to HTML pages
  
• Alternative text based navigation and a full site map
  
• Open Architecture to streamline future development of the site
  
• Site will be developed in HTML using Dreamweaver and handcoding. Pages will be named with
  html extensions
  
• Coding will meet XHTML 1 script standard
  
• Pages to be well-formed (html, head, title, and body tags)
  
• All attributes, events, and tags to be written in lower case
• All elements to be closed (“</.”)
  
• The value assigned to an attribute to be enclosed in quotes
  
• All elements to be properly nested
  
• Pages to include a DOCTYPE declaration
  
• Cascading Stylesheets will be used to ensure an consistent look and feel across the site
  
• Testing for Bobby A standards will be used according to W3C Checklist of Checkpoints for
  Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0

For more information on accessibility visit www.w3.org/WAI.