About the Trustmark

You can use our certification programme to help your clients demonstrate compliance with the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Guidelines, Section 508 and other national specific legislation.

The programme contains 3 elements of trust, providing the most cost effective, flexible and highest degree of trust for accessibility compliance certification.

3 elements of trust

Certify the accessible parts of a Web site

You can now help clients buy into accessibility much more easily than ever before. It’s now possible to certify sections of a Web site, instead of having to wait until the entire site is compliant.

We will help you encourage clients to provide a statement of intent to demonstrate how you are helping them build accessibility into their business process.

This means you don’t have to deliver an accessible Web site in one hit. It’s possible to build standards into your business process over time. This is possible as a direct result of our Content Labels technology.

3 Responses in "About the Trustmark" »

Sarah

November 7, 2007 @ 3:45 pm

OK… feedback… here goes… going back to the front page. menu bar should match the shape of the side squares on the right… or they should all be squares rather than curves… (preference towards curves… prettier..)

Colours… Like the blue… the green looks a bit dirty and pale… it’s bizarre… (btw I’m doing this in firefox… colour can be different in ie.)

Do you really want comments boxes on each page?

not sure the search and contrast areas are in the right place. If it were me I’d put contrast options right up in the very top right corner as high up as possible… maybe low and high with white text and a blue box round one and a green box round the other… something like that…

I’d bring search down elsewhere, probably just beneath the menu bar but above the seperator on the right hand side… it leaves a cleaner line for the logo.

If the logo is to have shadow have you considered using that in the layout as well? It could look great or terrible… dependant on how done… but matched to the logo colours would be cool as it would bring it all together.

Being a complete dummy I could say the first question on trust marks is what is one? As someone who was looking to get one the key questions I would be looking to get answered very quickly are how would I benefit, what would it cost, and how much time and how many hoops would I have to jump through. The link to the tools is a great idea.

paul

November 7, 2007 @ 5:40 pm

Regarding the shape of the main navigation - you’re absolutely right. In fact, our developers got it working in IE but it was taking longer than expect in Firefox. So, we’ll change this.

Colour is very personal. I’m not attached to the green personally so let’s see what others think.

We’d like comments boxes where it makes sense. In other words, if someone has something to say no a particular point, then we’d like them to articulate this on the site. This is mainly because it’s likely that others may hold the same opinion - we can address it right away.

Regarding search - interesting. What do you think of where it is on http://segala.com ?

I thought we used shadow elsewhere. We’re likely to rethink the images used so we’ll take this into consideration.

So, most visitor to this site will already be a partner - hence they’ll know what a Trustmark is. However, perhaps we should put some copy on the overview page to explain it in one sentence - or possibly use the screen shot?

What link to tools are you referring to?

Thanks again for the feedback

Paul Walsh

November 7, 2007 @ 5:42 pm

BTW, didn’t you think to click on ‘About the Trustmark’ to find out more about it?