One World, One Browser?
We are currently working on some CSS for a client who requested the site be created to ‘Level Triple-A Conformance to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0’. For those who wish to know this is a guideline by the W3C and conformance to Priority 1, Priority 2, and Priority 3:
‘Conformance to these Guidelines will help make the Web more accessible to users with disabilities and will benefit all users.’
The site contains quite a bit of complexity and rich content and we have also built an interactive Flash component in AS3 for part of the site which requires alternative content.
We like to think we are pretty good at CSS and have built the site with all the pre-requisites. The only trouble is that when it came to releasing a test version of the site to the client, he was using Internet Explorer 6 (at the time of posting this accounts for 25% of all web browsers so not to be ignored).
We have spent the day painstakingly going through the site page by page to make it look and function just as it does in Internet Explorer 7, Firefox (of course) and Safari.
This got us thinking about starting a campaign: “One World, One Browser”
(and of course let it be Firefox)
You may well say that this is dictatorial, anti-competitive, unimaginative even. But after tonight, who cares.
JOIN US. WE ARE ONE.
PS: More info on Accessibility on W3C here
Kirsten, or the K-dog as he is known on the mean streets of his North London home, is the pater familias of UVd and has seen the company through nearly a decade of trading in Brick Lane, East London (be wary of 'back in the day' stories). Experienced snowboarder, footballer, gardener and general healthy person. Do not underestimate his ability to gain injury from any one of these extreme sports!
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