Standards compliance

Navigation aids

1. All pages on this site include a consistent set of global navigation links.

Links

1. 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).
2. Wherever possible, links are written to make sense 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.
3. Link text is never duplicated; two links with the same link text always point to the same address.
4. There are “javascript:” pseudo-links. However all are supplied with Alt tags. All links can be followed in any browser, even if scripting is turned off.
5. There are no links that open new windows without warning.

Images

1. All content images used on this site include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics include empty ALT attributes.

Visual design

This site and all its archives use cascading style sheets for visual layout.

1. Internet Explorer has a limited text resizing feature (”View” menu, “Text Size”), but it only works with relative font sizes. A special stylesheet that uses relative font sizes is automatically served to visitors using Internet Explorer. (download Mozilla if you require something with a higher degree of re-sizing
2. If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.
3. All designs are checked with vischeck which tests for varying methods of colour blindness.