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Telephone (859) 261-5908 to immediately reach Raymond Sonoff, President of Sonoff Consulting Services, Inc., 271 Saxony Drive, Crestview Hills, KY 41017-2294 USA. Use Any Browser -- by Design! Page of Sonoff Consulting Services, Inc.'s Productivity and Knowledge Transfer Web Site |
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Major Headings of Scsi's Use Any Browser -- by Design! PageThe major headings provided on Scsi's Use Any Browser -- by Design! page are listed immediately below:
NOTE: Relevant hyperlinks are included within the associated paragraphs to make your browsing session productive and all the more enjoyable. What makes the Scsi P&KT Web Site Unique?The company's logo contains the slogan, "Scsi's TOTAL ACCESS Web Design ... Simply the best!" ... and that is the unique answer in a nutshell. The fundamental answer to this question is explained by Scsi's achievement of 100% accessibility, and this unique fact is clearly attributable to deliberate adherence to Scsi's "Perfect 10" Web Site Standard. To see the overall picture of what is stated above, select the image immediately below -- if present -- to view or download a full-page Adobe PDF diagram that provides hyperlinks to each of Scsi's "Perfect 10" Web Site Best Practices for your convenience.
In what ways can 100% accessibility be demonstrated? Listed below are just three specific examples of Scsi's ten Best Practices for Usability and Accessibility that every World Class Level Web site should provide its visitors -- and that you will learn firsthand apply to each and every Web page within the Scsi P&KT Web site:
Browser IndependenceThe fundamental underlying Web site design objective for the Scsi P&KT Web site is and will always remain as follows: To provide for 100% accessibility -- regardless of the particular means by which a visitor ultimately gets to the Scsi P&KT Web site. Ubiquitous Web Access is exemplified through Scsi's P&KT Web SiteThe World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C's) "Ubiquitous Web Domain" reference document contains a definition similar to Scsi's Working Definition of Universal Web Accessibility and Web Usability. Stated simply, Ubiquitous Web Access is designed into Scsi's Web site -- through adherence to Scsi's "Perfect 10" Web Site Standard with its underlying set of ten Best Practices that every "World Class Level" Web site should strive to provide its visitors, prospects, customers, clients, and users. Consider the various combinations listed below as examples of what can be employed to clearly and convincingly demonstrate Scsi's claim of universal Web accessibility (commonly referred to as Ubiquitous Web Access):
NOTE: If you are interested in finding out more about this "Any Browser Campaign" topic, visit Cari D. Burstein's Viewable with Any Browser Web site. Please read on because there's more to be said and demonstrated everywhere within the Scsi P&KT Web site itself. Hyperlink access any way you want to go about it -- mouse-only, keyboard-only, trackball, or any other pointing device, or any possible combination of the aforementioned.In fact, if you are one of the majority who actually does prefer to navigate and access hyperlinks by pressing mouse buttons -- rather than making keyboard-based selections (e.g., use of the Tab and Enter keys) to reach any particular hyperlink on a Web page or to make a button selection, that's fine, too. So, what is the point? The Scsi P&KT Web site can handle any combination of possible preferences, thereby allowing any visitor to have it his or her way at all times. To find out more about how these things can and have been achieved here, please read on. What's Wrong with other Web Sites?Sticking to a WYSIWYG Way of Doing Web Site DevelopmentAmazingly enough, nearly all Web sites that you've visited to date -- including highly prestigious brand name companies we all know about and respect -- must have been created by Web design/development/implementation personnel who really have not done their homework in order to assure "getting it done correctly" in the first place.
Failing to Focus on the Summarial Objective -- 100% Accessible Web PagesAs will be outlined in the following sub-sections, in contrast to the above-outlined situation for most companies, such examples of accessibility-related limitations are never employed for the Scsi P&KT Web site. In effect, visitors should not be concerned about even the possibility for encountering such self-imposed limitations either now or at any time in the future within the Scsi P&KT Web site. What Underlying Objectives Apply throughout the Scsi P&KT Web Site?Fundamentally, burdening a Web design with overhead, assumptions, and unrealistic inferences should always be minimized. Less is truly more. Listed below are three topics that are reflected in Scsi's "Perfect 10" Web Site Standard design considerations and which will always apply throughout the entire Scsi P&KT Web site:
Adhere to a KISS Philosophy"Less is more." That pretty much sums up why Scsi has chosen to apply the "Keep It Simple, Sonoff!" (KISS) philosophy to the overall design underlying the presentation of Web pages on the Scsi P&KT Web site. Questions and AnswersAs part of working toward implementation of the KISS philosophy, Scsi concentrated on not only asking but also answering just two fundamental questions:
For each such instance in question, the correct answer always had to center upon satisfying one overriding consideration, namely: If an element is judged to be non-essential, then don't make use of it in the underlying Web design. Element-by-Element Process of Elimination ResultsSo, this deliberate decision to a [KISS] philosophy is manifested by the following suite of facts -- all collectively applicable throughout the entire Web site:
Sophisticated Approaches Were Purposely SacrificedTo readily achieve these reductions in programmatic options, some deliberate 'sacrifices' were made, including the following:
How can sacrificing all of these powerful elements be done while still 'delivering all the desired goods' to every Web site visitor? Amazing Benefits of Adopting SimplificationThe explanation is truly both simple and elegant: As part of keeping things simple, only 'plain vanilla' HTML- and CSS-based source coding -- coupled with adherence to World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)-based standards -- is employed for each and every Web page's contents. Remarkably -- if not surprisingly to most persons -- is that is precisely what makes the adopted approach so universal in its applicability. Amazingly simple reason, isn't it? Maximize Overall AccessibilityFrom the outset, Scsi decided to maximize accessibility to the Scsi P&KT Web site by adopting three specific stances:
To optimize Web usability-related factors, a purposeful choice was made to assiduously architect each Web page's source code so that it would always pass W3C-based markup validation tests. Moreover, proof of concept, interactivity, and learning benefits on behalf of each and every Web site visitor, prospect, customer, client, and user are ever present, namely: three distinct validation testing-related choices -- (X)HTML; CSS; and WCAG recommendations -- are always included on this and on every other Web page within the Scsi P&KT Web site. Provide for 100% Markup Validation TestingVia convenient "Test-This-Page" Hyperlinks on each and every page of the Scsi P&KT Web SiteYou can easily "W3C validation standard" test each and every Scsi P&KT Web page's HTML source code, Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) source code, or Accessibility (Section 508/WAI). How? Just select the corresponding hyperlink -- provided under the "Web Page Validation and Contact Information" section located near the bottom of each Scsi P&KT Web page -- corresponding to the test you want to execute. Repeat as desired for other selections until you are done with your testing, then select the Back button as many times as are necessary until the Scsi P&KT Web site page on which you began your tests appears. Via "Fill in the URL address" for any other accessible Web Site's PagesIn a similar manner, you can also access the W3C's publicly accessible tools to test any other accessible Web site's pages of your choosing. To do this, select one of the three Web standards validation hyperlinks provided on Scsi's Tips and Notes page. Within that validation testing window, you will need to make whatever corresponding field entries or selections are necessary to properly set up the test conditions and then select the associated button to initiate that specific W3C-based test. When you finish examining the displayed test results, select the Back button until the Tips and Notes Web page reappears. Web Page Validation and Contact Information This Use Any Browser -- by Design! Page of Sonoff Consulting Services, Inc.'s Productivity and Knowledge Transfer Web Site was validated -- to assure full conformance to W3C's XHTML 1.0 Strict, cascading style sheet (CSS), and WCAG Accessibility (Priorities 1, 2, and 3, inclusive) recommendations -- and uploaded on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 at 11:35 a.m. ET by Raymond Sonoff, President of Sonoff Consulting Services, Inc., 271 Saxony Drive, Crestview Hills, KY 41017-2294 USA: Telephone: (859) 261-5908. Remember: If you have some questions to ask, wish to request additional information about specific topics, or want to send a request for proposal, Scsi will always welcome your inquiries and respond promptly -- often the very same day -- to your e-mail communications. -- |
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