What Does This Mean?

Website accessibility is one of the more important matters when building a website these days. There are guidelines and legislation in place, meaning that if your website does not conform then you could be taken to court and fined a substantial amount of money!. For more information on this subject please click here

There are many accessibility tests you can perform online, such as this one. However, they do not tell you how to fix them and they can be being hard to interpret if you do not understand coding.

When making a website, developers should always try to follow guidelines and legalities as provided by W3C - The World Wide Web Consortium

Following these guidelines means that your website will be more compatible, increasing your chances of being found on the search engines.

Many developers do not follow W3C standard, and even some browsers do not follow all of the standards. Internet Explorer is a classic case of this as Microsoft do not recognise W3C. This makes building a website that is fully accessible very difficult. However, the desired results can be achieved by good developers.

An easy way to check what your site looks like though Internet Explorer ‘problem family’ is to use netrenderer