This web site is developed with consideration for web standards and web accessibility. It uses little or no HTML Tables to format content, instead formating of content is provided by the use of Cascading Style Sheets, PC users should activate smooth screen fonts within the system settings- by default this is turned off.
We are still providing for Legacy User Agents as described Visual Browsers - Prior to 2008, below.
There still is a very broad range of UA visiting this site from Legacy to Latest editions.
Extract from Log File - Month of January 2010Approximately; 42% MSIE, 29% Firefox, 23% Safari, 6% Opera.
Browser Versions are as follows:-IE Version 6.0 NT 5.0 & NT 5.1, IE Version 7.0 NT 6.0, IE Version 8.0 5.1 & NT 6.0Firefox 3.0.16 de Win NT5.1, Version 3.0.16 fr Win NT 6.0, Version 3.0.17 de Win NT5.1 & Version 3.5.6 de MAC OSX 10.5Safari 4.0.3 De De Mac OSX 10.5.8 & Version 4.0.4 Mac OSX 10.6.2Opera 9.80 Win NT6.0.
A Quick Analysis of the logfile from the first two weeks of April illustrates that Institutional users are browsing on Legacy Systems and do not update their Browser (Users with IE 5.5 on NT 5.0 and IE 5.5 on NT 4.0). In this regard we have provided for these users with the Homepage Update.
We are now including the 3G iPhone in our testing. According to the access statistic the first mobile device visitor was viewing through a Nokia 9200 with a Mozilla 4.1, IE 5.0 UA, visiting 30th July 2005.
The statistic also shows, from the New Generation of Mobile Devices, that the first iPhone visitor viewed the site 3rd January 2009, first Blackberry visitor the 26th November 2009 and first HTC visitor 1st February 2010.
We have analysed the visual web browsers used to visit this web address for the last two years and found that there is a good cross-section of web standard browsers. We found also Approximately 12% of visitors appear to be using browsers with partial standard compliance. We have tried to include these users within our development. Approximately 3% of users appear to be using a browser with absolutely no Standards support for whom we have provided an alternative style for the homepage and request a revisit after a browser update. Subsequent web pages are accessible but are delivered unstyled content.
There still remains visible differences in the rendering of content between same browser versions on different systems, the exception to this is NS 7 Mac/PC. We have focused on Macintosh/ PC platforms as they fall within our user profile and testing environment. Macintosh remains important for us, and over 64% of visitors are using the Mac OS. We also have a few users visiting the web site using Unix based systems or other OS platforms running Linux which we standortuld gladly like to hear from.
On the Mac we have tested with NS 7.02, 6.2, 4.7, 4.61; Mozilla 1.2.1; IE 5.0, 5.1, 5.2; Opera 5, 6.03; Safari 1.2.On Win 98 we have tested NS 9.03, 8.04, 7.2, 6.2, 4.7 IE 6.028, 5.0; Firefox 1.0. On Win XP & NT 5.1, IE 6.0. Cross Browser and Cross Platform differences do occur, minor revision, language versions & release build all play an influence in the viewability of this web site. We have developed a mechanism to cater for these differences but it is not possible to test for all possible scenarios. If someone experiences something which they think is not right please screenshot the problem (print screen on PC) and send to webmaster@zest.ch. Be sure also to load the file, found at www.zest.ch/d.html, and either copy paste the content from the browser or screenshot it. We will make improvements as and when we can.Please note NS 4.X users should rather update there browser than screenshot unstyled content.Downloading new browsers can take time, for users with slow connections Firefox is slim and available for Win or Mac OS X. It is about the half the file-size as anyother browser to download.
Even though we are essentially daily involved in creating Visual Communication Solutions we have provided considersation and testing for users using Text only or Speach Browsers. We have been testing with MacLynx (Beta 1, Mac PPC) and Simply Web 2000 (3.0, Win32). As a visual user I can only say we have made a first attempt at incorporating non-visual browsing and we standortuld gladly like to hear from users visitng this site with a non-visual browser. In both cases the rendering of German content with English based speach output is not ideal and we hope for future releases to improve the test environment.
Currently we are not developing for small screen output.
To learn more about web standards please visit the World Wide Web Consortium,or go to the Standards project, multi-lingual Information is available.
To learn more about accessibility please visit the World Wide Web Consortium
This site uses Javascript and will deliver unstyled content with possible reduced functionality if deactivated.
In case of questions please contact info@zest.ch