Accessibility statement

What is WAI?

Available 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.

Access key 1: Home page
Access key 2: Skip past the menu to main content
Access key 0: Accessibility statement

Deadlybrain.org features:

A list of all abbreviations used on the site. This is temporarily down because it has to be recoded from scratch.
Links that make sense out of context, for browsers that can make link lists for quick navigation. Some examples of link texts that don't cut it, at least without a proper title attribute, are "here", "click me" and "read more".
Alternative presentation methods for images, embedded objects and the like. All images are marked with an appropriate ALT tag.
Advance warning when a link is opened in a new window, which otherwise easily can confuse those who can't see it happening. I prefer to avoid doing so at all, as it renders the back button useless.
Font size definitions in relative units such as percent and em. This is for browsers that can't scale text marked up in absolute units (such as px and pt).
Links that all point to web locations - in other words, no fake "javascript:" pseudo-links. Everybody doesn't have Javascript support, and links weren't meant to be used as buttons anyway.
Semantically correct header tags. The subheaders are always marked hierachically with H2 and H3 - JAWS users can skip between them using ALT+INSERT+2 respectively ALT+INSERT+3.
Extended titles for: Link texts that aren't fully descriptive, abbreviations and special terms.
Special treatment of purely decorative text. ASCII art isn't displayed at all to screen readers and braille interpreters, and all text smileys used in sentences are either substituted for graphic ones or given a title attribute.

Standards compliance

The markup on each page and all style sheets follows W3C standards (XHML 1.0 Transitional, CSS 2).
All pages are Bobby A approved and follow the priority 1 guidelines of the W3 Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

What's the big deal?

The WHO estimates 10% of the world's population to be disabled (naturally, this figure is higher in disaster areas). Disabilities that can cause problems on the Internet are reduced motor ability in the hands, damaged short term memory and impaired general or color vision.

This homepage strives to uphold content accessibility to a large number of web users - including those with Internet Explorer.

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