Accessibility Statement

This is the official accessibility statement for www.webridge.com.au.

Access keys

Most browsers support jumping to specific links by typing keys defined on the web site. On Windows, you can press ALT+accesskey; on Macintosh, you can press CONTROL+accesskey.

The home page and all archive pages can be reached by using the following access keys:

Access key 1

Home page

Access key 9

Contact Page

Access key 0

Accessibility statement

Access key 2

Skip to content

Depending on your web browser you may need to press the enter key after pressing the access key.

Standards compliance

1. All pages validate as HTML 4.01 Transitional.
2. All pages in the site have meaningful page titles.
3. All pages in the site use structured semantic markup. The top level heading is an H1, the next level heading is an H2, and so on. EM(phasis) and STRONG tags are used for emphasis and strong emphasis, not BOLD and ITALIC tags.

Links

1. Where necessary, 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, in other words, two links with the same link text always point to the same address.
4. There are no javascript: pseudo-links. All links can be followed in any browser, even if scripting is turned off.

Images

1. All content images used in the home page and all archives include descriptive ALT tags.
2. Purely decorative graphics include null ALT tags.

Visual design

This site uses cascading style sheets to control the appearance of text.

1. A default stylesheet is used that does not depend on JavaScript.
2. The default stylesheet uses only relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified text size option in visual browsers.
3. Invisible links are provided to enable users with screen readers to jump immediately to the content or navigation.
4. If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.

Accessibility references

1. W3 accessibility guidelines, which explains the reasons behind each guideline.
2. W3 accessibility techniques, which explains how to implement each guideline.
3. W3 accessibility checklist, a busy developer's guide to accessibility.
4. U.S. Federal Government Section 508 accessibility guidelines.
5. 30 days to a more accessible weblog, Mark Pilgrim's tutorial that explains these guidelines and how to implement them. It's best to start at the beginning.

Accessibility software and services

1. Bobby, a free service to analyze web pages for compliance to accessibility guidelines.
2. HTML Validator, a free service for checking that web pages conform to published HTML standards.
3. Web Page Backward Compatibility Viewer, a tool for viewing your web pages without a variety of modern browser features.
4. JAWS, a screen reader for Windows. A time-limited demo is available.
5. Lynx, a free text-only web browser.

Related resources

1. WebAIM, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving accessibility to online learning materials.
2. Designing More Usable Web Sites, a large list of additional resources.

Accessibility books

1. Joe Clark: Building Accessible Websites.
2. Jim Thatcher and others: Constructing Accessible Web Sites.

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