Inclusive by Design
Accessible usability means that anyone should be allowed to enjoy and benefit from a public website. The label "disabled," evokes a stigma of exclusion that is both unfair and unfortunate. We all have strengths — and weaknesses.
Enlightened architectural engineers and designers approach the issue more constructively. Using the principles of Universal Design they plan a physical space so that all people can use it. You are not excluded, even if you are large, or small, or young, or old, or otherwise ‘disabled.’
Standards Compliant
This website has been developed in accordance with W3C recommendations. It is organized to be easy to navigate and designed to be visually comfortable. If you have any problem using this website please let us know.
Web-standards based coding separates a website's informational content from its appearance (presentation design). Separation of content and presentation has many benefits. For example, browsing applications that do not support CSS can still "read" the website content (screen readers, PDA's, mobile phones, tablets, etc.). This website was coded using human and machine friendly, structured, semantic markup. Visually, the design is created using cascading style sheets CSS.
This website is coded to be accessible to people using assistance devices and browser technology. The visual layout (appearance) is specified using relative-measurement units to accommodate user initiated text enlargement without breaking the layout. Adaptive features are used to ensure support for the widest range of browser software and operating systems. Responsive coding and design features enable different device technologies to access the content.
Usable Accessibility Features
- Responsive coding and design
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Visual layout uses relative-measurements to accommodate text enlargement. The "elastic" flexible design features enable different sized device screens to view the content comfortably, including:
- Smart phones (e.g., iPhone)
- Tablets (e.g. iPad)
- Desktop computers (1024 screens and up)
- No Javascript. Bells and whistles free!
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No javascript is used on this website (except on contact page, for form validation).
- Ensure wider accessibility
- Ensure usability (avoid functional problems)
- Increase performance (faster-loading lighter weight code, no slow-down due to jscript execution)
- Avoid malicious attacks
- Privacy protection
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No "cookies," "spyware," or other kinds of user tracking software is used on this website, other than (harmless) standard server logs. Because, we respect visitors privacy.
- WC3 Standards compliance
- Pages on this site are WC3 valid XHTML and CSS. Pages on this site use structured semantic markup. H1 for page titles, H2 for content titles, H3 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 (such as the headline of an article).
- Images
- Content images include descriptive ALT attributes. Decorative only graphics include null ALT attributes.
- Visual design
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- Cascading style sheets (CSS) are used for visual layout and presentation.
- Relative font sizes allow user-specified "text size" option in visual browsers.
- Browsers or devices which do not support CSS can still access content.