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Achieving accessibility and compliance

Sites powered by Sitekit CMS easily attain their required level of accessibility - A, AA or AAA.

The Sitekit CMS development programme includes accessibility compliance as a core development issue, so you are assured that each new version of Sitekit CMS is fully compliant with the latest standards

Sitekit CMS' accessibility features

• Automatic browser detect - any browser, any device, any connection
• Accessibility enforcement - Sitekit CMS can 'force' editors to use predefined accessible style sheets
• Built in access keys - prebuilt global template accessibility as standard
• Built and supported by accessibility experts
• Automatic text only page creation
• Text reader compatible - Sitekit CMS sites are compatible with major text to speech engines

All the automatically generated code produced by Sitekit CMS is W3C compliant and it is
straightforward to produce a Bobby AA/Watchfire/WebXact compliant site. All Sitekit code generated is encoded as UTF-8 for improved non-western language support.

Meeting Public Sector Standards

The government guidelines for interoperability (e-Government Interoperability Framework or e-GIF) is an evolving standard aimed at defining the technical policies and specifications governing the flow of information between government and the public sector organisations. This standard covers issues such as interconnectivity, data integration, e-services
and content management.

Sitekit CMS has been developed in accordance with these objectives, and pioneers the use of XML, the standard adopted when building interoperable systems.

Freedom of Information

The Freedom of Information Act came into force in January 2005. It gives a general right of access to all types of recorded information held by public authorities, sets out exemptions from that right and places a number of obligations on public authorities. A key element of the act is the adoption and maintenance of a ‘publication scheme’ and the notion of pre-emptive publishing.

Sitekit CMS can help in the maintenance of the publication scheme via its file library. It can also be a real asset in pre-emptive publishing as a public sector organisation’s website may be the most convenient path to placing such documents in the public domain.