Accessibility Statement
Standards Compliance
- Pages on this site are mostly W3C WCAG A approved, complying wih most priority 1 guidelines. Please note that this is a judgement call. Many guidelines are vague and can not be tested automatically.
- All pages on this site validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict. On the bottom of every page is a link to W3C XHTML validator.
- All pages on this site use structured semantic markup.
h1
elements are used for main titles, h2
and h3
tags for subtitles.
Links
- Many links have title attributes which describe the link in greater detail, unless the text of the link already fully describes the target.
- There are no links that open new windows without warning.
Access keys
- Most browsers support jumping to specific links by typing keys defined on the web site. On Windows, you can press
ALT
+ an access key; on Macintosh, you can press Control
+ an access key.
- If you're using Opera, available accesskeys are listed when entering accesskey mode with
Shift
+ Esc
.
- All pages on this site define the following access keys:
Access key S - Skip to content
Access key 4 - Site search
Access key 3 - Sitemap
Access key 1 - Home page
Access key 0 - Accessibility statement
Images
- All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics include empty ALT attributes.
Visual Design
- This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.
- This site uses only relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified "text size" option in visual browsers.
- If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.
Printing
- The site has been designed to be "printer-friendly".
Resources