Scsi's "Perfect 10" Web Site Standard -- Best Practice #10: Every Web page validates against the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) specifications for Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Content Guidelines (WCAG).
For your convenience, the major headings provided on this Web 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.
Making Scsi's Best Practice #10 both Testable and Verifiable using Publicly-Accessible Tools
For specific details about Scsi's stance on Web page validation, take a look at Scsi's WebKISS™ Guide #1: Why Validate a Web Site's Pages?
As a general rule, you'll likely to be able to find individuals who espouse adherence to Web standards, those who feel that such Web standards do or will only complicate things and get in the way of productive and creative Web page design and implementation, and perhaps even a third group who are waiting for and wanting convincing proof that there really is a practical way to basically "have your cake and eat it too."
To show you that this worthy goal can actually be accomplished on a realistic scale, Scsi offers a "Keep It Simple, Sonoff!" approach for everyone to use. How? Claims of 100% conformance to W3C Usability and Accessibility standards are both immediately testable and verifiable -- by Y-O-U -- in either of two ways: 1) You can always make use of the set of three "Test-this-Web-page" hyperlinks located near the bottom of each and every page on the Scsi P&KT Web site, and 2) you can make use of the set of three "Test Any Web Site's Pages" hyperlinks provided on this Web page and on Scsi's Tips and Notes Web page as well.
Providing a Learning-by-doing Approach to Web Validation and Web Accessibility Issues
So, what's the basic point for providing these hyperlinks? First of all, doing so makes it a straightforward task for you to prove for yourself that Scsi's Best Practice #10 is successfully met. Secondly, you learn that even such highly technical Internet-related Web validation standards can be "put to the test" by any visitor to this site. Lastly, your performing each of these learning-by-doing validation tests should convince you of this fact: The built-on-adherence-to-Web-standards foundation of the Scsi P&KT Web site is currently "rock solid" -- all by design.
Moreover, Scsi plans to keep it that way -- always focusing on 100% accessibility -- all for your benefit and seamlessly presented enjoyment amongst the obviously chaotic state of Web site designs that you will encounter elsewhere. So, remember these two basic facts as you proceed with your learning-by-doing validation-to-Web-standards testing:
- FACT #1: You are presented with the power to select and to immediately test-and-verify each and every one of these conformances to W3C standards for yourself.
- FACT #2: No specialized training or knowledge is ever required on your part to make effective use of these publicly accessible validation tools.
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Validation Testing Tools
W3C and WAI validation Logos and Respective Hyperlinks
Provided below are the applicable -- and selectable -- W3C and WAI validation logos and respective hyperlinks that are conformed to by Scsi throughout the entire Scsi P&KT Web site:
Select either the graphic  -- if displayed here -- or the following hyperlink to specify any Web page's Uniform Resource Locator (URL) address for W3C HTML markup validation testing. (Remember: Once you are through examining the results, be sure to use the Back button to return to the Scsi P&KT Web site.)
Select either the graphic  -- if displayed here -- or the following hyperlink to specify any Web page's associated Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) for W3C-based Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) validation testing. (Remember: Once you are through examining the results, be sure to use the Back button to return to the Scsi P&KT Web site.)
Select either the graphic
 -- if displayed here -- or the following hyperlink to display HiSoftware© Cynthia Says™ Portal WCAG Accessibility Web page. Once that scan page is displayed, you will need to enter the URL of the page you want to test, specify the desired guidelines for the test, that is, compliance to either Section 508 or Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) standards, and finally select the Submit button to initiate the actual test. (Remember: Once you are through examining the results, be sure to use the Back button to return to the Scsi P&KT Web site.)
Immediate Validation Testing of each and every Web page on the Scsi P&KT Web site
The presence of a series of "one-step" validation tests for all three categories of Web page validation testing (HTML, CSS, and WAI/508 Accessibility) makes this task easy, now doesn't it?
Besides Best Practice #10, which of Scsi's "Perfect 10" Best Practices would you like to read about next?
To learn more about Best Practices that comprise Scsi's "Perfect 10" Web Site Standard, please make another selection from the list below:
- Best Practice #1: Every Web page is fast loading.
- Best Practice #2: Every Web page is viewable with any type of browser.
- Best Practice #3: Every Web page incorporates meaningful, descriptive 'balloon help' text for every hyperlink (both text- and graphics-based).
- Best Practice #4: Every Web page's navigation always remains under user control, thereby allowing use of any combination of keyboard, mouse, or other pointing devices as hyperlink selection tools.
- Best Practice #5: Every Web page incorporates an integral and effective dual-domain search window.
- Best Practice #6: Every Web page's text viewing size selections remain under user control at all times -- according to the particular browser tool's available selections.
- Best Practice #7: Every Web page's contents will always automatically resize widthwise to fill the entire browser window -- no matter what screen resolution settings or window sizes are in effect at any time.
- Best Practice #8: Every 'Print this page' operation automatically results in an intelligently word wrapped, truncation-free, black-on-white printout of that Web page's main body contents -- regardless of the page orientation and user-specified text size selection in effect at that time.
- Best Practice #9: Every Web page incorporates readily accessible contact information.
- Best Practice #10: Every Web page validates against the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) specifications for Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Content Guidelines (WCAG).
Web Page Validation and Contact Information
This Scsi's "Perfect 10" Web Site Standard -- Best Practice #10: Every Web page validates ... Page was last updated, validated -- to assure full conformance to W3C's XHTML 1.0 Strict, screen medium cascading style sheet (CSS), and WCAG Accessibility (Priorities 1, 2, and 3, inclusive) recommendations -- and uploaded on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 at 7:50 p.m. EST by Raymond Sonoff, President of Sonoff Consulting Services, Inc., 271 Saxony Drive, Crestview Hills, KY 41017-2294 USA: Telephone: (859) 261-5908.
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