Accessibility

Standards Compliance

• All pages on this site are compliant with the Web-Xact guidelines.
• All pages on this site is WCAG approved, complying wih all priority 1, 2, and 3 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
• All pages on this site are Section 508 approved, complying with all of the U.S. Federal Government Section 508 Guidelines.
• All pages on this site validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
• All pages on this site use structured semantic markup. H2 tags are used for main titles, H3 tags 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).
• 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.

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.