Accessibility

For many government and community organisations, the delivery of accessible, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) guidelines compliant sites is a legal requirement.

Objectify can translate this often overwhelming area into meaningful, non-technical information and help you determine your compliance requirements. Objectify can also assist in the development of W3C compliant site designs and train users in the maintenance of these standards under everyday conditions.

If you think that this an area that may affect your business but you feel unsure about the issues involved, Objectify can offer solutions regardless of your technical platform or content management strategy.

Objectify has capability and facility to cater for Goverment and W3C Accessibility guidelines facilitated by metadata, ALT TAGS, HTML views of PDFs etc as well as its flexibility in design options and navigation structures. It can also provide XHTML Strict or Transitional compliant code. The Objectify CMS has been designed to be accessible to all authors.

Objectify is committed to the development and continual enhancement of the accessibility of the CMS and supports your organisation's commitment to web accessibility standards. Clients working with W3C compliant sites in Objectify Site Studio can check over their pages before publishing to ensure that they are W3C compliant.

Objectify's W3C Compliance Report has been integrated into the Page Preview button to assist in this process. This compliance report validates against s the document type definition created by the World Wide Web Consortium.

Why the need for XHTML?

Some of the benefits of XHTML in general are:

Document developers and user agent designers are constantly discovering new ways to express their ideas through new markup. In XML, it is relatively easy to introduce new elements or additional element attributes. The XHTML family is designed to accommodate these extensions through XHTML modules and techniques for developing new XHTML-conforming modules (described in the XHTML Modularization specification). These modules will permit the combination of existing and new feature sets when developing content and when designing new user agents.

Alternate ways of accessing the Internet are constantly being introduced. The XHTML family is designed with general user agent interoperability in mind. Through a new user agent and document profiling mechanism, servers, proxies, and user agents will be able to perform best effort content transformation. Ultimately, it will be possible to develop XHTML-conforming content that is usable by any XHTML-conforming user agent

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