Accessibility Statement
This is the official (accept no imitations!) accessibility statement for http://nebulose.net/blog/. It borrows heavily from Mark Pilgrim's Accessibility Statement, which is the definitive work as far as accessibility statements go.Access keys
Most browsers support jumping to specific links by typing keys defined on the web site. On Windows, you can press ALT + an access key; on Macintosh, you can press Control + an access key.
From any page on the site, use Access Key 4 to jump to the search box. Go on, try it now. Amazing! Jumping cursor! (Access Key 1, likewise, returns you to the home page.)
Standards Compliance
The homepage, all archive pages, and the master archive index all validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional. If you don't want to take my word for it, there is a "Validate Me" link in the footer of each page.
Semantic Markup
Pages use structured headers: h2 tags are used for the date of an entry, h3 tags for entry titles, h4 and h5 for lesser divisions within an entry. JAWS users can skip to the next day using ALT+INSERT+2, or the next post with ALT+INSERT+3.
In cases where list-like content is displayed, such as the Links page, appropriate XHTML list markup is used. Tables are used only for tabular data, not for layout.
Navigational Aids
All archive pages have rel=previous, next, up, and home links to aid navigation in text-only browsers and screen readers. Netscape 6 and Mozilla users can also take advantage of this feature by selecting the View menu, Show/Hide, Site Navigation Bar, Show Only As Needed (or Show Always).
Links have title attributes, where appropriate. Whever 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. There are no javascript: pseudo-links. Links will not be opened in new windows unless the user specifies so.
Images
All content images used in the home page and all archives include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics include null ALT attributes. If ALT text is insufficient, a LONGDESC attribute is used in addition.
Visual Design
This site uses cascading style sheets exclusively for visual layout, and degrades gracefully where CSS is not fully supported. The default stylesheet uses only relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified "text size" option in visual browsers. For example, if you're using Internet Explorer, you can make your default text size larger under the "View" menu, "Text Size", "Larger" (or "Largest"). If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.
There is no style switcher. There will be no style switcher. Style switchers are stupid.