Standards and Accessibility

Look Lively Web Design Ltd. work hard to produce valid standards-compliant code to ensure your website is as widely available as possible.

Ignored for a long time by many developers, standards such as HTTP, HTML or XML are at the very core of the success of the web. The current trend of stressing standards compliance on the Web is not due to chance: they are a win-win for all participants.

By using standards, your website's foundation is built upon technologies that have been developed and tested by leading experts in the Web community. Standards organizations, like the W3C, build a consensus among these groups and experts to maintain and develop consistent architectural principles.

A standards-compliant website is better because it;

• works on all compliant browsers
• loads faster
• is optimised for search engines
• is easier and quicker to update and maintain
• is future-proofed
• is cross-platform compatible with Macintosh, PDA's, mobile phones etc.

What is accessibility?

In the context of a web site, accessibility refers to the degree that a Web site can be accessed by people with disabilities. information and services should be accessible despite physical, sensory or cognitive user disabilities, work constraints or technological barriers. content should be presented in a clear and simple manner, and should provide understandable mechanisms to navigate within and between pages.