Our Accessibility Standards
We believe accessibility for all users is an important issue and has been hugely neglected by the development community. This website has been designed to be:
W3C XHTML v1.0 validated
W3C CSS v2.0 validated
W3C - WAI compliant to "AAA" standard
Bobby - compliant to level "AAA" standard
Bobby – compliant to US 508 level “AAA” standard
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.
This site uses CSS, XHTML 1.0 Strict and conforms with level AAA of the WCAG
If you have a problem in accessing a page on this site please contact us:
john@scottwebdesign.co.uk
Accessibility Statement
All pages on this site support XHTML 1.0 Strict [ Extensible HyperText Markup
Language version 1.0 strict DTD]. This is indicated inside the <!doc type>
tags on all pages:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
.
The site has been tested against the standards for Strict XHTML given by World
Wide Web Consortium [www.w3c.org] as indicated by the following icon:
All pages on this site features CSS [Cascading Style Sheets]. Some browsers
do not support all features in CSS and as a consequence you might experience
irregularities in the design.
The most common browsers who are known to cause trouble are:
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.x
• Netscape Navigator 4.x
• Opera 3.5
• Any older versions of the above mentioned
The pages has been tested against the standards given by World Wide Web Consortium
[www.w3c.org] as indicated by the following icon:
Netscape Navigator/Communicator 4.x users are deliberately excluded from
some features due to the poor support for Cascading Style Sheets. Netscape
has released a new version (6.01), which supports CSS.
This site has been tested against:
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0*, 5.0, 5.5
• Netscape Navigator 4.7*, 6.01
• Opera 5
*denotes some design irregularities.
This site has been evaluated on the basis of Priority 1, 2 and 3 items in
the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines as indicated by this icon:
By displaying this logo this site indicates a claim of conformance by the page author or content provider to conformance level AAA of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, including all Priority 1, 2 and 3 checkpoints defined in the Guidelines. The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 explain how to make Web content accessible to people with disabilities. Conformance to these Guidelines will help make the Web more accessible to users with disabilities and will benefit all users.