Accessibility statement for ptaff.ca

Here is the official accessibility statement for ptaff.ca. For all comments and inquiries, contact the webmaster.

• Access keys
• Navigation aids
• Visual design
• Hyperlinks
• Images
• Forms
• Standards compliance
• Support

Access keys

Most browsers allow direct keyboard access to some defined hyperlinks. Typically, "Ctrl + Key" or "Alt + Key" activate these links.

Most ptaff.ca pages define these access keys:

Access key 1

Homepage

Access key 3

Site map

Access key 8

About ptaff.ca

Access key 9

Contact us

Access key 0

Accessibility statement

Each one of these hyperlinks is reproduced at the end of each ptaff.ca document.

Navigation aids

• Generally, the ptaff.ca pages contain rel=previous, next, up and top links to assist navigation in text and oral browsers - but these links can also be spawned in most graphical browsers.

• When a table of contents is included in a document, it can be directly accessed by a rel=contents link, in the same way as the links described in the point above.

• A navigation bar summarizing the ptaff.ca main sections is displayed on every page that does not already list them.

Visual design

• This site uses CSS for its visual layout.

• Contents of every page remains accessible for every browser that does not support style sheets.

• In most cases, the documents layouts are generated with "liquid" directives, meaning that all available horizontal space is filled; so independently of screen resolution and browser window size, the pages don't need horizontal scrolling.

Hyperlinks

• Hyperlinks are written to keep meaning when read out of context.

• When text associated with an hyperlink does not seem explicit enough, a title as a mean of complement is added.

Images

• Images embedded in the ptaff.ca documents include alt attributes, offering an alternative for visitors who don't see images. Images that don't convey meaning (decoratives, mostly) use a null alt attribute.

Forms

• Most forms associate their fields with their corresponding labels, easing their use especially with screen readers and oral browsers.

• Though scripting is used to validate some forms, these forms still work as intended when browsers disallow scripting.

Standards compliance

• In most cases, ptaff.ca pages follow the priority 1, 2 and 3 recommendations of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Some guidelines require a judgement call because no automation of their testing may be done. The ptaff.ca team carefully reviews these recommendations needing judgement and believes that they are correctly applied.

• All ptaff.ca pages use valid XHTML if not specified otherwise; no judgement call is needed for this: a computer program can testify the XHTML validity of any webpage. As an example, anybody can validate the ptaff.ca homepage.

• When possible, the ptaff.ca pages use structured semantic tagging. h2 tags are used for titles, h3 tags for sub-titles, and so on.

• There is no proprietary software requirements to browse the ptaff.ca documents.

Support

Accessibility is best described as a process and not as a product; though the ptaff.ca team constantly enhances the accessibility of its documents, some older pages and some pages made by third parties might fail the above statements. In case of trouble or simply to get more information about the ptaff.ca accessibility statement, a message should be sent to the webmaster.