Accessibility Statement

This page summarizes the accessibility features of this site. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

Standards Compliance

The pages on this site are strict XHTML 1.1 with inline MathML 2.0 and SVG 1.0 elements. Pages are styled using CCS 2. All pages are checked to ensure that they validate but if you find any problems please let me know.

The 1 most recent entries appear on the homepage (access key 1). For longer entries, only the first few paragraphs are shown followed by a “more…” link which leads to a page containing the full text of the entry.

Older entires may be navigated chronologically, via the archives (access key 2), or by category via the site map (access key 3).

Scripting

I have made it a priority to ensure that users can properly navigate this site without the use of javascript. In fact, the only thing you will need Javascript for is if you want to install my Firefox search plugins. Otherwise, you can do anything on the site with scripting disabled.

Access keys

Access keys are keyboard shortcuts, defined by a particular website, which provide quick links to certain features of the site. They are supported by many but not all browsers. The access keys defined on this site are listed below.

Most popular browsers support access keys by using keyboard shortcut prefixes. On Windows the default prefix for Firefox and Internet Explorer is Alt, so for example to reach this page (access key 0) you could press Alt+0. However for Firefox, the prefix differs by operating system. On older versions of Firefox for Linux, the prefix is also Alt, but on Firefox 2.0 it is Alt+Shift. On a Macintosh, it is Control. On Opera, you press Shift + ESC and then press the access key.

The behavior for most browsers upon pressing an access key combination is to jump directly to the linked page. Internet Explorer differs in that if the link is to another page, pressing the access key combination selects the link, but does not follow it. Thus you will need to press return to follow the link. Also, if an access key combination conflicts with a menu shortcut you can access the menu shortcut by pressing Alt and then the menu shortcut key. I believe this is precisely why Firefox changed its default prefix.

The following access keys are defined on this site:

0: Accessibility Statement
1: Homepage
2: Archives
3: Site map
4: Search

Abbreviations and Acronyms

All abbreviations and acronyms are marked as such and tagged with their corresponding definitions. In doing so I have followed Jacques Distler’s conventions.

Stylesheets

These pages are styled using CSS stylesheets. There is an alternative print stylesheet which results in a cleaner page for printing by removing, among other things, the header, sidebar, most borders, and link colors. I have also provided an aural stylesheet for use by screen readers which support it.