Accessibility without Compromise
We are currently in the middle of developing a new website for the Department of Adult and Continuing Education in NUI Maynooth. As part of the University, the Department’s website must comply with high standards of accessibility and style guildelines, while appearing fresh and well-designed to appeal to a non-academic audience.
The challenge is to combine our highly designed look with a stringently standards-compliant technical implementation.
Some of the criteria:
- Compliant XHTML
- WAI Accessibility to AA standard
- No tables for layout
Our design achieves all these criteria (and goes beyond some of them), while appearing better, if anything, than it would have had we used the tried and tested table-based methods of page layout.
