Here are a list of the project/website goals I have set myself:
Validate to CSS 3
I think it’s time to start using CSS3 as the new standard. People will umm and arr about it until Internet 2 is public domain. So I look at it this way: If I don’t validate to CSS3 – who will? I will use the valuator on the W3C Standard site for validation of CSS3.
Validate to XHTML 1.0 [Strict]
This goes without saying and if I fail this section of my goals I will only disappoint myself. I will use the valuator on the W3C Standard site for validation of XHTML 1.0 [Strict].
Meet WCAG Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 Priority 1 minus 1.3 and 1.4
The clauses in the WCAG Priority 1 are:
- 1.3 Until user agents can automatically read aloud the text equivalent of a visual track, provide an auditory description of the important information of the visual track of a multimedia presentation;
- 1.4 For any time-based multimedia presentation (e.g., a movie or animation), synchronize equivalent alternatives (e.g., captions or auditory descriptions of the visual track) with the presentation.
I will not be setting theses as project/web site goals as I do not intend to use video as part of my website.
I will validate these by using the checklist on the w3.org web site.
Page will be have a reading level less than 12 as set by the Gunning Fog index
As I want to keep my language simple to fit into my WCAG but not so simple that it deters potential clients/employees.
This will be checked by using a calculator at http://simbon.madpage.com/Fog/
To use scripts/technologies: such as PHP and JavaScript for functionality and interactivity.
I will be hot-linking to my blog and various other social mediums to make my site interactive. This may come in the form of a twitter box or/and similar.
PHP will be the building block of my site using it along side MySQL in a CMS of sorts.
These will be checked by myself and by the person assessing my work as I have not fully chosen what technologies to implement on my site.