Thursday, September 25, 2008

Applecore Interactive builds attractive, accessible standards – compliant websites

Applecore Interactive follows the three pillars of web standards to achieve attractive, accessible standards – compliant websites:
  • Structure: using semantically correct structural (x)HTML for a documents structure
  • Presentation: for all presentation and layout we use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) a language appropriate for implementing a web page’s presentational affects.
  • Behaviour: the appropriate server-side or client-side scripting language to bring in dynamic behaviour and business logic
Ensuring the separation of these three pillars and bringing them together in a modern web development process we are able to ensure accessibility to the people who browse the web in alternative ways including portable devices and screen readers. The separation of structure and presentation delivers web content to people with physical and visual impairments in a structured way that allows them to browse a webpage with tools that are best suited to their needs.

This structured delivery also remains accessible to non-human internet users most importantly search engines.

The presentational aspects are more tightly controlled through one technology and therefore will work in all modern browsers and can be customized to work in non-standard and legacy browsers such as Internet Explorer 6 and below.

Working with the three pillars is future compliant.