Accessibility Features
About Access Keys
Most browsers support navigating to specific links by typing Access Keys defined on pages like this one. Users can press ALT+Access_Key or CTRL+Access_Key (Windows and Mac respectively). Internet Explorer users may need to hit “enter” to activate a link. For upper–case access keys you'd hit Shift+ your key combination.
Access keys used to navigate this site:
- Access key 1 = Home page
- Access key 2 = Skip to main content
- Access key 0 = Accessibility statement (this page)
- Access key i = Increase font size
- Access key d = Decrease font size
- Access key c = Contact page
- Access key n = Contact page: email name field
- Access key a = Contact page: email address field
- Access key s = Contact page: email subject field
- Access key m = Contact page: email message field
Standards compliance
Every page on mountainpad meets the following standards benchmarks:
- Bobby AAA approved, complying with all priority 1, 2, and 3 guidelines of the W3 Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
- Complies with all guidelines of the US Federal Government Section 508 Guidelines.
- Validates as XHTML 1.0 and CSS2.
- Uses structured semantic markup. Users of the JAWS screen reader can skip between headings by typing
ALT+INSERT+2.
Links
- Many links have title attributes which describe the link in greater detail, unless the text of the link already fully describes the target.
- Whenever possible, links are written to make sense when read out of context. Many browsers (such as JAWS, Home Page Reader, Lynx, and Opera) can extract the list of links on a page and allow the user to browse the list separately from the page.
- Link text is never duplicated; two links with the same link text always point to the same address.
- All links can be followed in any browser, even if scripting is turned off.
- There are no links that open new windows without warning.
Images
- All content images used on this site include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics include null ALT attributes.
- Complex images (none used yet) include LONGDESC attributes and links to text–only descriptions to explain each image to non–visual readers.
Visual design
This site uses CSS for visual layout.
- The mountainpad stylesheet uses only relative font sizes, which are compatible with the user–specified “text size” option in visual browsers. Internet Explorer users can make their default text size larger under the View menu by selecting Text Size, Larger (or Largest). As an easy alternative (if javascript is enabled), change the text size by using the
+and-buttons located on the upper right side of each page. - If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.
- Still using Netscape 4? PLEASE download a standards–compliant browser.