Accessibility Statement · Healthouse Family Clinic
This website was developed in accordance with WC3 recommendations. It is coded to be accessible to people using assistance devices and browsers. This website is organized and designed to be easy to navigate and visually comfortable. If you have any problem using this website please contact us.
Specific accessibility features
Skip navigation: Tab key
Screen reader users can press the TAB key to highlight a "skip navigation" link, enabling quick access to the main content.
Access keys: [1], [0]
This site uses the following access keys:
- Access key "1" = links to the home page.
- Access key "0" = links to the Accessibility Statement (this page).
- Instructions for using access key combinations on this website:
- Windows: ALT + (the access key)
- Macintosh: Safari = Control + Option + (the access key)
- Macintosh: Firefox = Control + (the access key)
NOTE: In the FIREFOX browser, if after pressing the above key combination the link is highlighted only, pressing another key is required to activate the link (i.e., enter or return).
Standards compliant web-browsers support the use of specific key combinations for keyboard controlled linking, i.e., "keyboard shortcut." A keyboard shortcut can be used in web page navigation, these shortcuts are referred to as access keys.
NOTE: Accesskey consistency is poor across the web because there are no key assignment "web-standards." This website uses only two keys (1 = Home, 0 = Accessibility statement page) because these two keys are used relatively consistently across the web.
General accessibility features
"Elastic" Design
Visual layout is specified using relative-mesurement units to accommodate text enlargement without breaking the layout (about user initiated resizing).
- WC3 Standards compliance
- Pages on this site are WC3 valid XHTML and CSS. Pages on this site use structured semantic markup. H1 for page titles, H2 for content titles, H3 for subtitles.
- Links
- 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). Links are written to make sense out of context.
- Images
- Content images include descriptive ALT attributes. Decorative only graphics include null ALT attributes.
- Visual design
- Cascading style sheets (CSS) are used for visual layout and presentation.
- Relative font sizes allow user-specified "text size" option in visual browsers.
- Browsers or devices which do not support CSS can still access content.
Links to more information
- WebAIM: Web accessibility resources and expertise
- W3 accessibility guidelines: reasons behind guidelines
- W3 accessibility techniques: How to implement guidelines
- W3 accessibility checklist: Quick checklist for accessibility compliance
- U.S. Federal Government Section 508 accessibility guidelines
Standards compliant
Web-standards based design and coding keeps a website's content and its appearance separate. Separation of content and presentation has many benefits. For example, browsing applications that do not support CSS, can still "read" the website content (screen readers, PDA's, cell phones, etc.).
This website was developed and coded using human and machine friendly, structured, semantic markup. Visually, the design is created using cascading style sheets. The coding is valid XHTML and CSS.
