Accessibility

Accessibility

We worked to make this website as accessible as possible for all audiences, including those with visual impairments or other disabilities. It is our goal to create a model of usable and accessible design, something which many sites usually neglect. The site conforms to the latest web standards and validation, details of which can be found below.

Standards Compliance

• All pages on this site are WCAGA approved, complying with all priority 1 rules of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. This is a judgment call; many guidelines are intentionally vague and can not be tested automatically.We have reviewed all the guidelines and believe that all pages are in compliance.
• Most pages/areas also conform to the WCAGA rules, although the work to attain full AA status is ongoing.
• All pages on this site validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional . For example, check the home page for XHTML validity.
• All pages on this site validate as well formed CSS . For example, check the site for CSS validity.

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.
• All images are optimised for fast download times and modem browsing.

Visual design

• This site uses CSS 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 style sheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.

Browser Support

We designed to support the following browsers specifically, as well as all standards-compliant browsers.

Internet Explorer 6 for Windows
Internet Explorer 7 for Windows
Mozilla Firefox for Windows