Accessibility Statement
The following provides information about the structure of this website, as well as Site Help for readers using assistive technologies.
Standards compliance
All pages on this site use structured semantic markup. H3 tags are used for main titles, H4 tags for subtitles. For example, on this page, JAWS users can skip to the next section within the accessibility statement by pressing ALT+INSERT+4. Opera users can skip sections by using "S" and "W" to cycle forwards and backwards respectively through headings.
Access Keys
This site uses the accesskey attribute. 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.
The preset access keys for every page on this site are as follows:
- 1 = Home
- 2 = "Skip nav" — Bypass the navigation and skip directly to the page content
- 0 (zero) = Accessibility Statement (this page)
Note: Internet Explorer requires you to press ALT + an access key + Enter to access linked documents.
Images
- Unless they are purely decorative items, all images used on this web site have suitable
altattributes. - 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.
- The first link in every document is a "SkipNav"; it is to skip directly to what is considered the main section of the page (the content). We have implemented this feature in a way that it allows Internet Explorer users to tab through (past that target link).
- URLs are permanent whenever possible.
Forms
All form controls are appropriately and explicitly labeled.
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).
