Datapoint is committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of technology or ability. We are actively working to increase the accessibility and usability of our website and in doing so adheres to many of the available standards and guidelines.
This website endeavours to conform to level Double-A of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
Navigation aids
All pages on this site include a consistent set of global navigation links.
All pages other than the home page have a “breadcrumb” trail of links leading up to the home page.
All pages on this site include a search box.
Links
Many links have title attributes which describe the link in greater detail, unless the text of the link already fully describes the target (such as the headline of an article).
Wherever possible, links are written to make sense out of context. Many browsers (such as JAWS, Home Page Reader, Lynx, and Opera) can extract the list of links on a page and allow the user to browse the list, separately from the page.
Link text is never duplicated; two links with the same link text always point to the same address.
There are no “javascript:” pseudo-links. All links can be followed in any browser, even if scripting is turned off.
Images
All content images used on this site include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics include empty ALT attributes.
Visual design
This site and all its archives use cascading style sheets for visual layout.
Internet Explorer has a limited text resizing feature (”View” menu, “Text Size”), but it only works with relative font sizes. A special stylesheet that uses relative font sizes is automatically served to visitors using Internet Explorer.
If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.
Accessibility references
W3 accessibility guidelines, which explains the reasons behind each guideline.
W3 accessibility techniques, which explains how to implement each guideline
W3 accessibility checklist, a busy developer’s guide to accessibility.
U.S. Federal Government Section 508 accessibility guidelines.
Contact
We are continually seeking out solutions that will bring all areas of the site up to the same level of overall accessibility. In the meantime should you experience any difficulty in accessing the Datapoint website, please don’t hesitate to contact us.