WEB STANDARDS

WEB COMPLIANT AND HANDICAPPED ACCESSIBLE SITES

When building a website, there are many factors that must be considered. Obviously, you want a site that is aesthetically pleasing, but it is almost important to make a site compliant to web and accessibility standards. These standards are put in place by the World Wide Web Consortium or W3C for short. The W3C sets standards for web page design so that browser makers and web designers have a framework to work within to guarantee that when someone views a site it appears as the author intended. These standards also insure that persons with disabilities, primarily imparities to eye sight, can still view web sites.

At IT for Hire, we follow W3C standards. Following W3C standards insures that our clients sites load quickly, work in all browsers and are viewable by persons with disabilities. Accessible Web sites can be just as creatively designed as inaccessible sites. Our goal is to ensure that all kinds of Web sites, including multimedia, work well for all users. In general, accessible Web sites don't need to be designed to be very different. They just need to be designed to be flexible; flexible so that users can operate them in different ways (with keyboard and mouse), and flexible so that they transform gracefully into intelligible and useful pages if particular technologies are not supported, or cannot be used by particular users or browsers.

If your company has a web site and you would like us to evaluate it for standards and accessibility, please contact IT for Hire. If your site is not compliant, we can make it so without losing the current look and feel of the site. If you need a new site, IT for Hire can help with that as well.