Standards compliance
All pages on this site aim to validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional. The validation program can determine with 100% accuracy whether a page is valid XHTML. There are still elements we may purposely use that will make certain pages fail.
Links
Many links have title attributes which describe the link in greater detail, unless the text of the link already fully describes the target.
Where possible links are written to make sense out of context.
Images
All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes. .
Visual design
This site uses cascading style sheets (CSS) for visual layout.
If your browser or browsing device does not support CSS, the content of each page is still readable.
Accessibility references
W3 accessibility guidelines, which explains the reasons behind each guideline.
Accessibility software
JAWS, a screen reader for Windows. A time-limited, downloadable demo is available.
Home Page Reader, a screen reader for Windows. A downloadable demo is available.
Lynx, a free text-only web browser for blind users with refreshable Braille displays.
Links, a free text-only web browser for visual users with low bandwidth.
Opera, a visual browser with many accessibility-related features, including text zooming, user stylesheets, image toggle. A free downloadable version is available. Compatible with Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and several other operating systems.