Access Statement

Visitors deserve a hassle-free journey through 01010.org. So as not to exclude anyone certain guidelines have been followed. If you would like to discuss or question this accessibility statement, there is a comments form after the main text, or you can send an email to peter [at] 01010 [dot] org, or please use the contact/feedback form (access key 9).

Access Keys

Some browsers allow skipping to specific links by pressing certain keys defined on the web site. On Windows, you can type Alt + an access key; on Macintosh, you can type Ctrl + an access key.

All pages on 01010 specify the following access keys:

• Access key 1 - 01010 Home
• Access key 4 - Search 01010
• Access key 9 - Contact or Feedback
• Access key 0 - This accessibility statement

Navigation

1. All pages have link rel = help, home, contents, previous, next and main navigation to help navigate with text-only browsers. Some visual browsers can show these features too.
2. Most pages follow this order: logo, search, main content, main navigation, style switcher, secondary navigation. A Skip to Navigation link is included just before the logo.
3. All pages include a search box (access key 4).
4. To aid easy finding, the search results page also has the Site Map and a further list of all articles.
5. Labels are used on forms and text input areas for large landing space and easy tabbing.

Image Alternatives

1. All content images on 01010 use alt with an alternative text description. Images for design are not used in this version of 01010. This is because I think it looks fine without them, rather than being done with accessibility in mind.

Visual Design

1. 01010 uses cascading style sheets leaving the content less cluttered and still readable without visual styling.
2. 01010 uses relative font sizes, allowing the user-chosen "text size" option to be used in visual browsers.
3. 01010 uses a server-side style switcher to allow easy switching between dark text on light background and light text on dark background. Page and font-size can also be altered without using browser "text size" option and is optimised for 800 x 600 pixel screen resolutions and above.

Standards Compliance

1. All pages on 01010 follow W3C guidelines for structure and semantics. H1 tags are used for main headlines, H2 tags are used for main titles, H3 H4 and H5 tags for other titles. This allows screen-reader users to easily skip from section to section.
2. 01010 pages are valid XHTML 1.0 Strict.

Recommended Reading

1. Mark Pilgrim's site Dive Into Accessibility is the basis of many accessibility features of this web site including this accessibility statement
2. Everyone recommends Joe Clark: Building Accessible Websites. I only recommend it to people with excellent eyesight because of the small and difficult typeface.

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