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My goal is to make this website highly usable and highly
accessible. The Internet should provide information and communication
resources for everybody. Web page features designed to assist people
with disabilities typically provide benefits to all people.
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 are used 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.
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 the majority
of people still use versions of browser software that don't fully and
uniformly support CSS
positioning methods.
- This site does not specify any absolute font sizes.
All relative font 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.
- W3C
accessibility guidelines explain the reasons behind each
guideline.
- U.S.
Section 508 accessibility guidelines.
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