Accessibility

Web accessibility is the practice of building website sso that they may be more easily used by people with disabilities. It is our belief that we should, to the best of our ability, build our websites, and products, so that all users can have equal access to the information and functionality we provide.

As an example when we put an image on a page using HTML we try and add text equivalent terms for every image, so that if a blind user were to view the page, the image would not simply be a filename, but it would appear as the text we describe it as. This helps text-to-speech software and text-to-braillie hardware. Also when we provide text it helps users with poor eyeysight who can enlarge the text. When we create links, they are underlined or have a different color to differentiate themselves to color blind users. We try and make clickable areas large for users who can't easily use a mouse. Etc.

It is our goal that any user with a visual, motor, or auditory disability can easily use our sites. In addition we do not use strobe or flashing effects that could impare a photoepileptic user.

To do this we use the W3C as our guide.

http://www.w3.org/WAI/

Should you find something on one of our sites that misses a web accessibility guideline we ask that you contact us and let us know. We're not perfect, and we make mistakes, but we want to make sure that we fix any issue we find. If you find a problem please contact us and let us know and we'll fix it ASAP.