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Web accessibility statement

Valid XHTML 1.0!  |   Bobby WorldWide Approved 508   |   Bobby WorldWide Approved AAA

This is the official accessibility statement for Patient Opinion.

Standards compliance
  • All pages on this site should be Bobby AAA approved, complying with all priority 1, 2 and 3 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines as well as US Government Section 508 Guidelines.
  • All pages on this site should validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict.
  • All pages on this site use structured semantic markup. h1 tags are used for main titles, h2 tags for subtitles (and so on). For example, on this page, JAWS users can skip to the next section within the accessibility statement by pressing ALT+INSERT+3.
Images
  • All content images used in this site should include descriptive alt tags. Purely decorative graphics include null alt tags.
  • Complex images include longdesc tags or inline descriptions to explain the significance of each image to non-visual readers.
Adobe PDF files

You might come across Adobe PDF files on this site. To facilitate use with assistive technologies, you can use Adobe's online PDF to HTML converter to view the files as web pages.

Visual design
  • This site uses primarily uses cascading style sheets for visual layout. The use of tables for layout has been kept to a bare minimum.
  • This site uses only relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified "text size" option in visual browsers.
  • If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the content of each page should still be readable.
Links to Accessibility References and Tools

Accessibility references

  1. W3 accessibility guidelines, which explains the reasons behind each guideline.
  2. W3 accessibility techniques, which explains how to implement each guideline.
  3. W3 accessibility checklist, a busy developer's guide to accessibility.
  4. U.S. Federal Government Section 508 accessibility guidelines.

Accessibility software

  1. JAWS, a screen reader for Windows. A time-limited, downloadable demo is available.
  2. Home Page Reader, a screen reader for Windows. A downloadable demo is available.
  3. Lynx, a free text-only web browser for blind users with refreshable Braille displays.
  4. Links, a free text-only web browser for visual users with low bandwidth.
  5. Opera, a visual browser with many accessibility-related features, including text zooming, user stylesheets, image toggle. A free downloadable version is available. Compatible with Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and several other operating systems.

Accessibility services

  1. Bobby, a free service to analyze web pages for compliance to accessibility guidelines. A full-featured commercial version is also available.
  2. HTML Validator, a free service for checking that web pages conform to published HTML standards.
  3. Web Page Backward Compatibility Viewer, a tool for viewing your web pages without a variety of modern browser features.
  4. Lynx Viewer, a free service for viewing what your web pages would look like in Lynx.

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