Week 7 Accessibility Policy

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· Who is the policy for?
· Purpose
· Reasons
· Benefits
· Requirements
· Legacy Sites

· Web Accessibility Class TOC

Who is the policy for?

This policy affects all sites designed by Mainz Press, LLC.

Purpose

To promote Website accessibly as well as W3C Web standards, which in turn will create a more functional and interoperable Web for everybody.

Reasons

Anybody should be able to access information on the Web. If the disabled cannot access this information then an important segment of our population is being deprived of a growing form of communication. Many of the techniques and technologies that will aid people with disabilities will create a more useable/accessible site for everybody.

Benefits

Valid and accessible code will promote Website communication and commerce.

Requirements

All pages will be:

• At minimum WCAG Double A compliant and addressing as many Triple A checkpoints as possible.
• Section 508 compliant if it is a government site.
• Valid XHTML unless the client requests HTML in which case the markup will validate as HTML 4.01
• Valid CSS

Required validation tools:

1. Cast Bobby
2. W3C HTML Validator
3. W3C CSS Validator

Legacy Sites

Standards have evolved, awareness and skill has increased, and the Validators are more compliant. Because of these facts some pages designed by Mainz Press, LLC may never have validated or had validated at one time but do not validate now for either XHTML, HTML 4.01, CSS or Triple A compliance. These non-compliant legacy pages will be updated when time permits.