Standards and Accessibility

W3C Standards

With the exception noted below, the pages on your site will be verified as W3C compliant. You will be able to display the W3C logo's below on your page if you wish.

Note: Where a 3^rd party add on is used, for example a youtube.com video or a Google Maps image. Then the page is likely not be W3C compliant.

 

Pages are made W3C complaint to:

1. Produce pages that are more likely to work on all of the browsers. Not only on the market leaders like Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Mozilla's Firefox or Apple's Safari.
2. Produce pages that should be accessible to more visitors.
3. Help find errors on the page.

It also future proofs your site to some extent as most browsers are slowly moving closer to the W3C standard.

W3C - is the World Wide Web Consortium (external link).

Testing

All pages are tested off line in the latest versions of the leading browsers Internet Explorer and Firefox as well as the Safari (Apple) browser. On line testing is done only if Bristol PC hosts the web site.

Tests are done at a variety of screen widths, normally (unless you have special requirements) on screens that are 800, 1024 and 1280 pixels wide.

Pages are designed to run on both Apache and Microsoft servers.

Accessibility

This is simply a matter of making the sites user friendly. Some of the simple rules followed are:-

• To use percentage font sizes not fixed font sizes. So the Internet Explorer's: View -> Text Size -> Larger, option works. Try it on this site for example.
• With the exception of the main menu items (top of this page for example), unless you request otherwise, underlined text will be used for a link and only a link. All image links also have a text link equivalent. Why confuse your sites visitors with hard to find links and have no text alternatives for no vision or poor vision visitors!?
• Unless you request otherwise or your background colour/text colour selections are not compatible with default link colouring. Link colours used are the default colours showing visited and unvisited pages in the standard colours.
• Warn you if your colour/contrast selections and font sizes are difficult to read or may cause problems to the 8% of colour blind males.

Contact Methods.

For more information ask for Peter by :-

• Phone UK  0117 3789 546
• E-Mail:       Peter Frost.