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This site has been designed to be as accessible as possible. This page describes some of the ways that accessibility has been improved.
The following Access Keys have been implemented (Mac users use Ctrl instead of Alt):
Every page contains a "skip to content" link at the very top. This allows movement direct to the content of every page. This is an effective way to allow screen readers, for example, to operate efficiently by not requiring all navigation and header content to be read first.
There is also a "site map" page which is linked to on every page. The site map is an easy way for a confused visitor to re-orient themselves, and also allows an "at-a-glance" overview of the whole site.
All font sizes have been specified in relative units. This means that they are easily adjusted by your user agent. For example:
View ... Text SizeView ... Text SizeI believe this is the most effective way to resize text on web pages and as such have not implemented a dynamic resizing feature within the web pages themselves.
To ensure the best possible experience from all user agents, the XHTML and CSS have been validated, and the pages have been verified against accessibility recommendations.
Some aspects of creating an accessible website are pretty certain. For example, the old chestnut: "Always supply alt attributes for your images". However other aspects aren't quite so absolute and can be more art than science. There are two things in particular which have not been implemented:
The HTML 4.0 Specifications suggest that a title attribute
... offers advisory information about the element for which it is set.
Browsers will tend to put title attribute text into a popup tooltip-type box when a mouse is hovered over the element. However this doesn't assist users with no mouse, and there is no certainty that alternative user agents such as screen readers will give any prominence to a title attribute. This link provides more discussion on the title attribute.
Title attributes are often used within links to provide more information about the link. It is much more effective to actually utilise the link text itself wherever possible to provide this information.
The general page structure of this site is implemented quite closely to the way it appears in a browser. Using CSS it is possible to put content before navigation in the page structure and then display the navigation before the content using styling.
But this is not guaranteed to increase accessibility and may even make it worse. For example, there is a study that leads to the conclusion that standard page navigation is better placed before the page content.
"Skip To" links can be provided within pages to allow extra mobility and remove the need to traverse page navigation and other common included segments on every page visit.
