About this Site

Design Goals: Usability & Accessibility

Usability, accessibilty and performance were the given highest priority in the design of this site. The main design goals were to provide clear and unambiguous navigation and content, to simplify maintenance and enable extensibility, and to ensure uncompromised accessibility to any web-capable device, including desktop browsers, screen readers, PDAs, etc.

Technical Notes

This web site was built in accordance with the 'best practices' recommended by the W3C: using semantic markup (XHTML Transitional 1.0) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS 2) to separate structure and presentation. Layout is achieved using CSS. HTML tables are used only where semantically appropriate, i.e., to display tabular data.

This methodology was employed to ensure that medcomp.ca is both accessible and functionally consistent regardless of the user's browser or operating system, and to demonstrate our commitment to leading-edge web technologies. Legacy browsers (generally speaking, v.4.x browsers or older), which fail to correctly implement W3C specfications of X/HTML and CSS, may display un-styled content. In this case, content will nevertheless be accessible. Users of legacy browsers are strongly encouraged to upgrade.

Standards-Compliance & Validation

1. All pages in this web site should validate as XHTML Transitional
2. All Cascading Stylesheets should validate to CSS version 2
3. All pages on this site should comply to the Section 508 Guidelines

If you find a page that no longer validates, please notify the webmaster. If you experience problems with accessing any content of this site, or if you have any comments or suggestions regardng the usability of this site, please notify the webmaster.

Medcomp.ca was designed and built by Steve Raskin for Out To Launch