Meantime IT

About this site

As you would expect, this site has been devised to showcase not only our design but also our build skills, and its content is accessible to the widest range of operating systems, browsers and visitors, regardless of disability or impairment.

You may be aware that there are many tools readily available on the web that enable anyone to construct a web page. However, there is a lot more to web development than a bit of layout.

Design is, of course, key and so is the build quality. Numerous studies have shown that visitors to a site rapidly – and subconsciously – assess the quality of a site.

Probably the most well known standard is W3C, the one set by the World Wide Web Consortium, and this site conforms to all their priority one and two guidelines. However, the Disability Discrimination Act also sets rules around accessibility and cannot (and should not) be ignored.  

The W3C standards are available on line but are probably not of much interest except to the technical reader, who will presumably already be familiar with them.

Accessibility

There is a wealth of material on the web which attempts to distil the Disability Discrimination Act for websites but, in a nutshell, if you’re developing a new website or redeveloping an old one, you have to ensure that your site is accessible. We'd be happy to explain to you what makes a site accessible and how to check that it is. However, you'll see a few useful links in the right-hand column of this page including one that will let you check the accessibility of any site.

One of the nice bonuses that you will get from an accessible site is that it is easier for search engines to read it and so will make a huge contribution to your search engine optimisation and, therefore, rankings. In other words, more people are likely to find you.

Technical

The (x)html is valid and conforms to W3C Standards (XHTML 1.0 Transitional).

This site is designed using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and is accessible with style sheets turned off or in browsers not capable of reading style sheets. The CSS is valid (CSS level 2.1) and conforms to W3C Standards.

The site is accessible (a text only version can be accessed by disabling the stylesheet), cross-browser compatible and has been tested on IE5.5, IE6, IE7, IE8, Firefox, Safari and Google Chrome.

Text sizes are relative and can be resized with your browser controls.

All pages on this site use structured semantic markup. H1 tags are used for main titles, H2, H3 and H4 tags for subtitles.

All images have alt tags.