Accessibility

The design of The Oratory Church of Saint Boniface website features a navigation and design backed by a foundation of Web Standards as established by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). We've focused accessibility and usability, made the site easy to maintain, with small download times at any connection speed.

Valid XHTML 1.0!

The markup language we chose, XHTML 1.0 Transitional (Extensible Hypertext Markup Language), enables compatibility with all browsers past, present, and future. Tables are used only to display tabular data. Deprecated elements such as the FONT tag have been eliminated, significantly decreasing the volume of markup rendered by the browser.

Valid CSS!

We use cascading style sheets (CSS) to separately control the layout and design based on how the pages have been marked up by XHTML. Through this separation of style from content we can control the rendering of all fonts, colors, borders, white space, and position of elements. Because the site's advanced CSS is hidden from older and non-compliant browsers, content is still viewable and very usable even in the earliest of browsers. So visitors with recent browsers will see the polished site as it was designed, while older browsers will view a raw-text version of the same pages. For example, all page titles, subtitles, paragraphs, and tabular data will be organized in a logical flow.

We hope you find the site useful.