Accessibility Statement
This is the official accessibility statement for teirney.NET.
If you have any questions or comments, feel free to email me at david@teirney.net.
Access Keys -
Standards Compliance -
Navigation Aids
Links -
Images -
Visual Design
References
Access Keys
Most browsers support jumping to specific links by typing keys defined on the web site. On
Windows, you can press ALT + an access key; on Macintosh, you can press
Control + an access key.
All pages on this site define the following access keys:
- Access key 1 - Home
- Acesss key 3 - Site Map
- Access key 4 - Search
- Access key 9 - Feedback
- Access key 0 - Accessibility Statement (this page)
Standards Compliance
- All pages on this site validate as
XHTML 1.0 Strict. Each page has a link
at the bottom where you can validate that the page is valid XML.
- All pages on this site use structured semantic markup.
H2 tags are used for main titles,
H3 tags for subtitles. For example, on this page, JAWS users can skip to the next section within
the accessibility statement by pressing ALT+INSERT+3.
Navigation Aids
- All pages have links to the site home page and the home page for the section currently being viewed.
- All pages include a search box (access key 4).
Links
- Some links have title attributes which describe the link in greater detail, unless the text
of the link already fully describes the target.
- Links are written in an attempt to make sense out of context.
Images
- All content images used in this site include descriptive
ALT attributes.
- Purely decorative graphics include empty
ALT attributes.
Visual Design
- This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.
- The links on this site are colour coded depending on whether the link is internal,
external, or will execute on the client (for
example by using a
mailto: link to open your email client).
- This site uses 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 will still be readable.
References
- W3 Accessibility Guidelines
- Explains the reasons behind each accessibility guideline.
- W3 Accessibility Techniques
- Explains how to implement each accessibility guideline.
- W3 Accessibility Checklist
- A busy developer's guide to accessibility.
