tfg 508 accessibility compliance outline

TFG has coded this site to be as accessibility compliant as possible for a site with mostly visual content. Accessibility coding can and does require a great deal of added time in both authoring and testing and was implemented on this site to showcase its availability as a value added option for TFG clients.

Standards Compliance

• All pages comply with Watchfire WebXact Priority 3 accessibility guidelines:
  WCAG—W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
  US Federal Section 508 Guidelines
  Watchfire WebXact
• All pages validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
• All stylesheets validate as CSS.

Navigation Accessibility

• All navigation/menus are reader-accessible. Javascript must be turned on for the sighted to view the menu in Internet Explorer only.
• Pages degrade gracefully in older browsers.
• Text sizing options are available since the designer chose to use pixels for font sizing.
• Skip links to navigation and content were provided.
• Tables were used for data only. Summary and scope attributes were used.
• Access Keys have been used to facilitate keyboard navigation (see Access Key Legend to the right).
• All links have title attributes which describe the link in greater detail.
• Links have been provided for download of all plug-ins used.
• Targeted links have a “new window” alert in the title tag.

Visual Accessibility

• This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.
• If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets or you have stylesheets turned off or otherwise overridden, the content is still logically presented and readable.
• Browsing is possible with images turned off.
• Four graduating font size stylesheets are provided for more accessible viewing.
• No blinking images were used on the main site pages although several of the multimedia files are animations.

access key legend