If you read Sonia’s event report on last month’s Global Accessibility Awareness Day, you’ll know that being compliant with accessibility standards is more than just a legal requirement. It also makes good business sense.
Tag Archive: web best practice
CORS support for Internet Explorer 8 and 9 now available in ActiveStandards API
Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) allows a browser to make a request from one site to another. So, for example, an in-house corporate solution that integrates ActiveStandards using the API needs to make a cross-server request from the corporate site to the ActiveStandards servers. Before the CORS standard was introduced, such a request would have resulted …
Standards Hub document updates
As part of keeping ActiveStandards up-to-date with the latest in best practice and compliance, we’ve recently added updates to a number of our Standards hub documents. This post provides a brief overview and you can view a complete list of the updates in the Help portal. The Accessibility document features a new subsection on mobile …
Standards enable collaboration
Trying to impress the importance of standards on your content team can be an uphill struggle – with many people’s initial reaction being to resent what they see as a restriction on their creative freedom. In this week’s guest post, web governance expert Lisa Welchman discusses why this isn’t the case – and why standards …
SEO goes mobile
SEO now accounts for a sizeable chunk of marketing budgets – but just as businesses are becoming comfortable with it, the landscape has become more diverse. As highlighted in a recent article by Duncan Heath for Forbes – How The Mobile Web Changes The SEO Landscape - growing use of mobile devices is creating a …
