Accessibility

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential. The specifications and guidelines they develop include the HTML language. That's right, they invented the language which is used to deliver all web pages to your browser and they make the rules which browser developers are supposed to follow.

All web pages are written in HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) and all web browsers are forgiving of invalid HTML to some degree; but there really are rules to which many websites do not adhere, and such carelessness can cause many problems, depending on what Operating System (Windows, Mac, etc.) and web browser your viewer is using. These problems can effect the ability of screen reader software such as JAWS to perform properly on your site and can make your site unfriendly even to people who have no disability.

This site is 100% W3C HTML valid code. You can test it by clicking the logo above.

W3C CSS

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are the recommended method for controlling text appearance and some aspects of web page layout. Just as in HTML, there are rules and failure to use valid CSS may result in unusable pages for some people.

This site utilises 100% valid CSS code. You can test it by clicking the logo below:

Bobby Guidelines

Pages bearing this logo indicate a claim of conformance by the page author or content provider to conformance level Triple-A of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, including all Priority 1, Priority 2, and Priority 3 (A, AA & AAA) 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.

As of November 2007 this site is AAA approved.