Accessibility

This Web site has been designed and built to be accessible to as wide an audience as possible. If you have problems using this site, please let us know and we will do our best to help.

Access Keys

After much consideration, we have decided not to use access keys on this Web site.

Standards Compliance

• All pages on this Web site validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict.
• All pages on this Web site use validated Cascading Style Sheets.
• Where possible, all pages on this Web site comply with all priority 1 and 2 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

Links

• Where necessary, links have title attributes which describe the link in greater detail.
• Whenever possible, links are written to make sense out of context.
• There are no javascript: pseudo-links. All links can be followed in any browser, even if scripting is turned off.
• There are no links that open new browser windows without warning.

Visual Design & Images

• This Web site uses CSS for visual layout. If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets, the content of each page is still readable.
• All font sizes are relative, and can be increased using the “text size” option in visual browsers.
• All content images used throughout the site include descriptive alt attributes. Purely decorative graphics include empty alt attributes.

Acronyms & Abbreviations

Whenever possible, an instance of an acronym or abbreviation is accompanied with the appropriate XHTML tag.