Accessibility and
Section 508 Compliance
Designers need to create accessible websites. There is no excuse today. And the designer who stops studying, who stops learning, who stops tweaking is not a professional. There’s so much more to professional web design than throwing together a few tables, a nice background, and uploading HTML or XHTML documents to a server.
At Shire Enterprises, we adhere to the standards of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which sets international standards for web design.
The W3C’s definition of accessibility is clear: " Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can use the Web. More specifically, Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with the Web, and that they can contribute to the Web. Web accessibility also benefits others, including older people with changing abilities due to aging."
Shire Enterprises ensures that your site is 100% compliant with W3C standards and Section 508. In short, we run tests that the W3C states should be run on all pages:
- The MarkUp Validator. - Also known as the HTML validator, it helps check Web documents in various formats like HTML and XHTML, etc.
- The Link Checker - Checks anchors (hyperlinks) in a HTML/XHTML document. Very useful to find broken links, etc.
- The CSS Validator - validates CSS stylesheets or documents using CSS stylesheets.
Read more on accessibility issues in web design here in our blog.