accessibility

on an access policy

This is a personal website so I do not have a formal access policy as such. However, I will as far as is posible follow good practice to maximise accessibility.

In particular I will:

• avoid graphical links (all thumbnails are accompanied by text links) & imagemaps
• place a text navigation bar (including a skip navigation link) at the top of every page
• format all text through external style sheets using commonly available fonts
• make text easily distinguishable against a clear background colour
• use ACCESSKEY attributes for homepage, what’s new and mailto links on every page
• use the TITLE attribute to label and describe all images.

But as the site is basically a photogallery with some supporting text, there are limits to how accessible I can make it for someone with impaired vision.

If anyone has suggestions for improving the accessibility of this site, please email me: I’d be happy to consider them and implement them where they are practical for me to do so.

accesskeys

The following access keys are active on all pages of this web site:

S skip navigation
1 home page
2 what’s new page
4 site search page
5 FAQ page
9 email mailto link
0 accessibilty page (with accesskey details).

The use of these accesskeys is supported by most current browsers:
Internet Explorer 5+: hold down the ALT key (Windows) or CTRL key (Mac) and select the number/letter of the access key, then press ENTER.
Netscape 6+: hold down the ALT key and select the number/letter of the access key.