Accessibility
Structured, semantic markup
HTML heading tags are used to convey document structure. A H1 tag is used for the site title. H2 tags are used for main page titles, H3 tags for subtitles etc.
Navigation menus are marked up as HTML lists ensuring that the number of links in the list is read out at the start and it can be skipped easily.
Images
All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics include null alt attributes.
Standards compliance
This website is designed to conform to Level AAA compliance as specified by the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and endorsed by the Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB). This means that all the requirements for Level A and AA are also met.
All pages validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional and use structured semantic markup.
Accessibility references
- W3 accessibility guidelineswhich explains the reasons behind each guideline.
- W3 accessibility techniqueswhich explains how to implement each guideline.
- W3 accessibility checklista busy developer's guide to accessibility.
- U.S. Federal Government Section 508 accessibility guidelines.
Accessibility software and services
- Bobbya free service to analyze web pages for compliance to accessibility guidelines.
- HTML Validatora free service for checking that web pages conform to published HTML standards.