Accessibility Statement
Paul Drown is committed to serving the needs of all users regardless of ability. My overall accessibility goal is to meet the visual, auditory, and cognitive needs of all visitors. This is an ongoing process, so you may experience some problems when using some assistive technologies with this website so check this page often for updates.
Standards Compliance and Accessibility
Our accessibility and standards practices include:
- Adherence to accessibility standards set forth by the W3C in the WCAG 1.0, Section 508 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1998 and Texas House Bill 2819.
- Use of XHTML 1.0 Strict.
- Use of CSS 2.0 for separation of visual layout and content. If your browser doesn’t support CSS or CSS is disabled the web site will still be readable.
- Use of semantic mark-up on all pages on the web site.
- Pages on this site are mostly WCAG approved, complying with most priority 1 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
- Pages on this site are Section 508 approved, complying with all of the U.S. Federal Government Section 508 Guidelines.
- Creation of hypertext links so that they make sense when read out of context.
- Inclusion of "Go to Navigation" and "Go to Content" links at the top of every document to allow users of text-to-speech browsers easy navigation.
- Alternative descriptions are provided for all images. Complex images include a long description link to help communicate the meaning of the images.
- Acronyms and Abbreviations include "title" attributes to explain their meaning.
- We use JavaScript in some places on this Web site; however, all content of on our Web site is accessible with JavaScript disabled.
- The color contrast between the text and background image meet a luminosity ratio of 5:1 or higher.
For More information about accessibility please visit Knowbility.org
