Accessibility information

Developing for accessibility involves many judgement calls, and I value practical feedback — if you have any problems with the site, or find any areas which are difficult or impossible to access or use, please do let me know.

Page Semantics

All the content on this website is properly structured into headings, paragraphs and other meaningful HTML semantics. If your browser or reader has a headings-reading mode or equivalent, you can use this to skip through the major sections of any page.

Groups of related links are generally organised into lists, and content which falls easily into name/value pairs is generally marked up using definition-lists.

Page Styles

All the visual styling on this website is implemented using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), so that you can override some or all of the sites appearance with your own user stylesheets.

The site also features a stylesheet switcher that allows you to choose from a preset range of design and access-oriented stylesheets — this includes several high-contrast schemes, and an option to apply no fonts or colors at all while preserving the physical layout (which allows your browser's accessibility preferences to show through).

Page Text

If you find that the text is too small for you to read, you can change it to a size you're more comfortable with:

• In Opera, use the Zoom selector.
• In Firefox and other Mozilla browsers, use the View - Increase Text Size option.
• In Safari, use the View - Make Text Bigger option.
• In Macintosh Internet Explorer, and Netscape 6 and 7, use the View - Text Zoom menu.
• In Windows Internet Explorer (including Pocket IE), use the View - Text Size menu.

If you use a wheel-mouse, you may be able to change the text size by holding down the Control or Command key and turning the wheel. In some browsers you can change the text size using Control or Command and the + and - keys.