My goal is to make this website highly usable and
highly accessible. The Internet should provide information and
communication resources for
all people without exception. Web page features designed to assist
people with disabilities typically provide benefits to everybody.
Standards Compliance
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- All pages on this site are validated to satisfy AAA and
Section 508 standards using A-Prompt
software.
- All pages on this site use structured semantic markup. H1
tags
are used for main titles, H2 and H3 tags for subtitles. For example, on
this
page, users of JAWS
screen reader software can skip to the next section within the
accessibility statement by pressing ALT+INSERT+3. Images used to make
special font titles are contained within H1 tags.
- Skipover links are provided to allow people using screen
readers to
bypass large blocks of navigation links or text.
Navigation
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- Site organization and positional awareness
are
provided via signpost trail (breadcrumbs). Current
page position is indicated by converting navigation links into plain
text and by marking with asterisks.
- All pages have top, home and site map links to aid
navigation. Long pages have internal links to allow the reader to jump
down to the desired subsection or up to the top of the page.
- The site includes a site map.
- Text links are used for navigation.
- Link text was written to make sense out of
context.
- Unvisited links are displayed in bold text.
Visited links are displayed in plain text.
- Links that jump from section to section within a page allow
the pages to be navigated with keyboard commands. Using
the Keyboard for Website Navigation.
Images
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- All content images used in this site include
descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics include null ALT
attributes.
- Complex images include LONGDESC attributes or inline
descriptions to explain the significance of each image to non-visual
readers.
Page Styles
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- Cascading style sheets are used to control the style of the
web pages.
This allows people with special viewing requirements to use their own
style sheets when viewing the pages.
- If your browser or browsing device does not support
stylesheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.
- Page layout was done via tables because
many
people still use versions of browser software that don't fully and
uniformly support CSS positioning methods.
- This site does not specify any font sizes, so all text
sizes are controlled by the user-specified "text size" options in
visual
browsers. Instructions
for text size
adjustments.
References
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- This statement is based on the
accessibility
statement from Dive Into
Accessibility.
- W3
accessibility guidelines explain the reasons behind each
guideline.
- U.S.
Section 508 accessibility guidelines.
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