Our new website has just been verified as W3C (The World Wide Web Consortium) compliant. In a direct quote from the W3C website ‘The social value of the Web is that it enables human communication, commerce, and opportunities to share knowledge. One of W3C’s primary goals is to make these benefits available to all people, whatever their hardware, software, network infrastructure, native language, culture, geographical location, or physical or mental ability.’ For example you will see that on our site all the fonts are scalable, so that visitors with sight difficulties can view the site at a comfortable font size for them.
Just beware though. There are some companies testing your site and cold calling to talk to you about W3C in a marketing drive for their business. As always just beware and check things out with your website designer or developer first.
16/12/2008 at 01:30 pm
While not a legal requirement, its still very beneficial to comply and shows that you treat accessibility as a high priority!
Well Done