Phazm Webdesign

Accessibility - Some information

Accessibility is how a website can help users with disabilities access the information contained within the page. The U.S. Census Bureau categoriezed 19.6% of of the U.S. Population as having some sort of disability. By contrast, nearly 75% of the population over 80 years old has a disability. Phazm Webdesign is trying to our part to let them access the web, as easilly as we do.

Disabilities - What are they? The main disabilities you should be aware of are vision and hearing. Visual includes blindness, near-blindness, color blindness and limited vision. All of these should be concerns to any online business, and Phazm Webdesign can help.

Standards Compliance

• Every page on Phazm Webdesign has been designed to comply with the U.S. Federal Government's Section 508 Guidelines. We have thoroughly read all guidelines available, and deemed all pages to be in compliance.
• Every page on Phazm Webdesingn validates as XHTML 1.0 Strict.

Links

• All or most links on Phazm have 'title' attributes, which describe the link in greater detail.
• Link anchor text is written to make sense, even when removed from context

Images

• All images on Phazm include decriptive 'alt' attributes.
• Images that are purely decorative have null 'alt' attributes, or are coded purely in CSS.

Visual Design

• Phazm uses Cascading Style Sheets for visual layout.
• If you are using a browser or device that does not support CSS, the content of the site is still readable.

More Information

Section 508 Guidelines

U.S. Federal Government Section 508 Guidelines

W3C Accessibility Guidelines

The W3C Accessibility Guidelines explains the reasoning behind each guideline

W3 Accessibility Techniques

The W3 Accessibility Techniques explains how to implement each guideline

W3 Accessibility Checklist

The W3 Accessibility Checklist gives developers a checklist to follow