Watchfire Webxact

We build websites to conform to Watchfire Webxact testing for quality, accessibility, and privacy issues.

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Accessibility has benefits!

Ensuring compliance with these standards has many benefits and we recommend these changes to all our clients, the key benefits we have found include:

Better accessibility & positioning on search engines
Better accessibility for all users on all browsers
Better accessibility for the disabled (inline with the Disability Discrimination Act 1995)
Smaller faster pages to download
Quick and easy to make future design changes to the site.

W3C-WAI

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was created in October 1994 to lead the World Wide Web to its full potential, partly by creating some common standards to ensure interoperability. This commitment includes promoting a high degree of usability for people with disabilities. This web site has been designed to conform to W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 level AAA (the highest level).

The 'Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0' (WCAG) is a W3C specification providing guidance on accessibility of Web sites for people with disabilities. Developed by the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative (W3C-WAI), the specification contains fourteen guidelines which are general principles of accessible design. These guidelines not only make pages more accessible to people with disabilities, they make them more accessible to all users, including those using different technologies to view the pages.

Accessibility levels

Legally, you achieve web accessibility determined on how your site measures up against the de-facto W3C-WAI standards. These standards point to 3 levels of web accessibility:

A - Which legally you must comply with.
AA - Which you should achieve; or your site will still be inaccessible to a large number of people.
AAA - Which should be aspired towards as far as is possible.

Validated

This web site has been validated and conforms to W3C Recommendations for XHTML and CSS. The site can be viewed in most current browsers and was tested on Internet Explorer, Mozilla/Firefox and Opera.