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W3C Validation

Validation is a process of checking your documents against a formal Standard, such as those published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) for HTML and XML-derived Web document types, or by the WapForum for WML, etc. It serves a similar purpose to spell checking and proofreading for grammar and syntax, but is much more precise and reliable than any of those processes because it is dealing with precisely-specified machine languages, not with nebulously-defined human natural language.

A2Z Websites.net now offer a free validation service with all our Web packages and a certified seal of approval provided by the W3C organisation (World Wide Web consortium) which provides viewers of your site the knowledge that they have entered an approved site.

Accessibility

Do you want to risk being on the wrong side of a lawsuit if your site proves inaccessible to - for instance - a disabled person who cannot use a 'conventional' browser? Accessibility is the law in many countries. Whilst validation doesn't guarantee accessibility (there is no substitute for common sense), it should be an important component of exercising "due diligence". It is now just over a year since a court first awarded damages to a blind user against the owners of a web site he found inaccessible (Maguire vs SOCOG, August 2000).

A2Z websites.net also offer an accessibility package designed in compliance with the Disabled Discrimination Act & Web Accessibility laws
to view more information on the DDA please click here.