What we do

News -

April/May 2008

Microsoft MIX:UK 08 Competition

Creative Jar come 1st place for their entry to the MIX:UK 08 Silverlight competition ...

March 2008

London Elects YOU!

With a hyped launch across London our team pulled out the stops on this Web 2.0 portal ...

January/February 2008

Hipp Organics

After winning a three-way pitch, Creative Jar have been chosen to completely re-design ...

CSS & Accessibility

A hot topic for many years now, accessibility in essence is all about making your website readable and navigateable by everyone, regardless of location, experience, or the type of computer technology used. This typically pertains to those website users whom are disabled, for which in the UK alone there are over 1 million registered. The fact is - it's the law and must be adhered to in developing new websites; and for older legacy websites a strategy for migration needs to be put in place for adoption.

Whilst this all might seem like an administrative pain, adherence to accessibility laws has many benefits. The first and foremost being it opens your site up to quite a significant market place of shoppers and clients both in the UK, Europe and USA. Further benefits are for your own marketability and also search ranking - algorithms love the fact that you adhere to these laws and place your site higher!

Compliance

We make your site accessible through the way we author. By adhering to development standards set out by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) for web authoring (CSS and XHTML standards) and to levels of accessibility compliance (single A to AAA) we end up with a fully complaint website for launch.

CSS Authoring

CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets and is the markup language used for authoring the front end of websites. CSS benefits accessibility by separating document structure from presentation. Style sheets were designed to allow precise control over text alignment, page elements, positioning, spacing, font characteristics, etc. By separating style from markup, authors can simplify and clean up the HTML in their documents, making the documents more accessible at the same time.

Semantic mark-up

Semantic mark-up is basically a mechanic for structuring and adding meaning to the hierarchy of mark-up authoring. It is descriptive enough to allow us and applications to recognise it and make logical decisions on what to do. In other words, markup means something we can identify and do useful things with it. This might be RSS feeds and or reader software for disabled surfers.

A to AAA adherence

These three levels A, AA or AAA are basically the scale for adherence to accessibility compliance standards. 'A' being basic and 'AAA' being seriously hardcore and fully compliant. Naturally we can work to any standard you require.