Accessibility

Accessibility statement

Standards Compliance

• All pages on this site are WCAG AA approved, complying with all priority 1, and 2 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. This is a judgement call; many guidelines are intentionally vague and can not be tested automatically. We have reviewed all the guidelines and believe that all these pages are in compliance.
• All pages on this site are Section 508 approved, complying with the Section 508 Guidelines. Again, a judgement call. We have reviewed all the guidelines and believe that all these pages are in compliance.
• All pages on this site are valid XHTML 1.1
• All pages on this site use structured semantic markup. H1 tags are for section headers, H2 tags are used for main titles, H3 tags for subtitles.

Visual Design

• This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.
• If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.

Browser Support

As standard this Site supports the following browsers:

• Internet Explorer 6/7
• Mozilla Firefox 2
• Netscape 6.2
• Safari 2

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).
• Links are written to make sense out of context.

Images

• All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics include null ALT attributes.
• Complex images include LONGDESC attributes or inline descriptions to explain the significance of each image to non-visual readers.

Navigation

• There is a Site Map with all the pages on the site presented as a list.