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Accessibility Statement
Accessibility Statement
We are committed to ensuring that our website is accessible to everyone. If you
have any questions or suggestions regarding the accessibility of this site, please
contact us, as we are continually striving
to improve the experience for all of our visitors.
Standards compliance
- All pages on this site follow U.S. Federal Government Section 508 Guidelines.
- All pages on this site follow priorities 1 & 2 guidelines of the W3C Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines.
- All pages on this site validate as
XHTML 1.1 Strict.
- All pages on this site use structured semantic markup.
H2 tags are
used for main titles, H3 tags for subtitles.
Structural Markup
Web pages on this site include 3 different areas:
- A header bar that includes the main navigation,
- A side navigation area
- A main content area,
- A footer.
When CSS (Cascading Styles Sheet) are not applied to a document (or when using a
screen reader), the 3 areas are read in the above order.
Images
- Unless they are purely decorative items, all images used on this web site have suitable
alt attributes.
- Content should be usable/accessible with images "off" (disabled).
Links
- Many links have title attributes which describe the link in greater detail, unless
the text of the link already fully describes the target.
- Links are written to make sense out of context.
- URLs are permanent whenever
possible.
Forms
- All form controls are appropriately and explicitly labeled.
- Form validation routine does not rely on client-side script.
Scripts
- We are using non obtrusive client-side scripts.
- Content of this web site is usable without JavaScript support.
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.
- Any information conveyed through the use of color is also available without color
(i.e. text based).
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