Web accessibility tool helps sites meet W3C standards

New Media Age, July, 2004 by Wendy McAuliffe

A software tool that automatically generates accessible Web pages has been developed by software firm Sigmer Technologies.

The Web content management system, called Scribe, enables businesses to build and maintain sites that are accessible to the World Wide Web Consortium's priority level three, it automatically generates HTML code that's compliant with the standards, which also helps optimise search engine results.

"When alt tags for images and title tags for links are combined with the way in which Web accessibility requires you to lay out content, pages will rank higher in search engine results," said Malcolm McIlhagga, director of Sigmer Technologies. "There's a legal requirement for sites to he accessible, but there are also business benefits from...