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Accessibility Statement

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Access Keys

Most browsers support jumping to specific links by typing keys defined on the web site - these are indicated by the underlined letters on the left-hand side of each page. For most browsers on Windows, you can press ALT + an access key; on Macintosh computers, you can press Ctrl + an access key, then press ENTER to follow that link. People using Opera should press Shift + Esc - if you are using version 9 or above, this will bring up a menu showing available accesskeys, from which you select the required link by pressing the appropriate key. If you are using an earlier version, you will not see this, and will simply need to press the key.

In addition to the keys indicated on the left, all pages on this site define the following access keys:

Standards Compliance

  1. All pages on this site are Bobby AAA approved, complying with all the Bobby guidelines. This is always a judgement call; many accessibility features can be measured, but many can not. I have reviewed all the guidelines and believe that all these pages are in compliance.
  2. All pages on this site are WCAG AAA approved, complying with all priority 1, 2, and 3 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Again, this is a judgement call; many guidelines are intentionally vague and can not be tested automatically. I have reviewed all the guidelines and believe that all these pages are in compliance.
  3. All pages on this site are Section 508 approved, complying with all of the US Federal Government Section 508 Guidelines. Again, a judgement call. I have reviewed all the guidelines and believe that all these pages are in compliance.
  4. All pages on this site validate as XHTML 1.1. This is not a judgement call; the W3C HTML Validator can determine with 100% accuracy whether a page is valid XHTML.
  5. All pages on this site use structured semantic markup. H2 tags are used for main section titles, H3 tags for subtitles. For example, on this page, JAWS users can skip to the next section within the accessibility statement by pressing ALT+INSERT+3. Opera users can skip between headings by pressing S (next heading) and W (previous heading).
  1. All pages have rel=home, previous, next, first, last, author, glossary, help, top, up, search, index links to aid navigation in text-only browsers. Netscape 6 and Mozilla (not Firefox) users can also take advantage of this feature by selecting the View menu, Show/Hide, Site Navigation Bar, Show Only As Needed (or Show Always). Opera users can use this feature by selecting View, Toolbars, Navigation Bar.
  2. The home page and all main site pages include a search box (access key 2).
  1. 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).
  2. Links are written to make sense out of context, in accordance with various web accessibility guidelines.
  3. All links to other sites open in a new window.

Visual Design

  1. This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout. This site appears more or less the same in Internet Explorer, Opera, Firefox and Mozilla variants.
  2. This site uses only relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified "text size" option in visual browsers. Font sizes can be quickly adjusted by using the scroll wheel of your mouse whilst pressing Ctrl.
  3. If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all (for example, text browsers or handheld devices), the content of each page is still readable. To confirm this, this site has been tested using the 'Small Screen' mode in Opera, and by using the Lynx Viewer tool. All pages except Basic Arabic (which uses Unicode) should appear correctly when viewed in Lynx.
  4. The pages on this site have been optimised with CSS for ease of printing. This means that no page breaks should occur within blocks of text or lists, or immediately after headings. Only the main body of the page will be printed - the side navigation bar, search bar and the flags at the top of each page linking to different translations will not be printed.
  5. Abbreviations are generally marked up with a dotted line underneath. Hovering your mouse over the abbreviation will bring up a tooltip showing it's meaning. This is in accordance with WCAG.

This statement is based on that used for the book 'Dive Into Accessibility', in accordance with their terms of use.

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