Working on a design brief for a radical makeover of the website at work, and have been doing a bit of digging around into how people specify web standards in their project specs. Came across this post from quite a while ago, and ended up using it as sort of a template, with some modifications:
Usability, accessibility and standards
- The website will conform to the following standards:
- Validation to either the W3C XHTML 1.0 transitional or strict document type
- Validation to the W3C’s CSS 2.1 or 1.0
- JavaScript will be implemented as progressive enhancement
- Will meet all WCAG Priority 1 Guidelines, except No. 1
- The website will render correctly in IE6+ and Firefox 2+
- All multimedia files will be available for download, and video will be provided via Flash
- Alternative stylesheets will be developed for printers and mobile devices
- Character encoding will be UTF-8
This is still not solidified, and I may decide to put HTML 4 in along with XHTML, though my preference is for the latter (for more on developing with XHTMl, see Jeffrey Zeldman’s “Better living Through XHTML” at A List Apart). Continue reading “Incorporating web standards into your design brief or RFP”