Accessibility Statement
GAWDS is committed to ensuring that its site is accessible to all users. This site conforms to existing recommendations and standards and has been tested in several browsers and with various assistive technologies.
All pages on this site provide descriptions to images
through the Alt attribute. Decorative images carry
the null Alt attribute.
Links have been provided with meaningful titles to describe the target unless the link itself is fully descriptive.
Access keys
Most browsers support jumping to specific links by typing keys defined on the web site.
Access keys are provided as a shortcut for users visiting major
areas of the GAWDS site. Access key strokes consist of
ALT plus the access key, or ALT-SHIFT
plus the access key on Windows machines and
CTRL plus the access key on Macintosh.
All pages on this site define the following access keys:
- Accesskey 0 : Login
- Accesskey 1 : About
- Accesskey 2 : Membership
- Accesskey 3 : Discuss
- Accesskey 4 : Guru Tips
- Accesskey 5 : Training
- Accesskey 6 : Publications
- Accesskey 7 : Contact
- Accesskey [ : Newsfeeds
- Accesskey = : Find a developer
- Accesskey \ : Main Content
- Accesskey ( : Accessibility
Standards compliance
- All pages on this site are Bobby AAA approved, complying with all the Bobby guidelines.
- All pages on this site are WCAG AAA approved, complying wih all priority 1, 2, and 3 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
- All pages on this site validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict.
- All pages on this site validate as CSS 2.0.
- All pages on this site use structured semantic markup.
- All pages on this site use cascading style sheets for presentation.