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Accessibility

Access Features

The Cosmic Ledger website contains special features which have no other purpose than to improve accessibility for visitors in special environments and with special needs.

All pages have special site navigation links that can be accessed through site navigation bars in many browsers. The links include start page, previous page, next page, up one level and down one level.

Right after any link to the start page, the first link on every page is a so called skip link linking to the start of page content. Each major section of every page has its own skip link and they can all be accessed through the keyboard using the TAB key.

Access Keys

Access keys or accelerator keys have been defined for all major sections of every page. To move around a page press and hold down ALT or CMD followed by one of the digits listed below.

  • 1 = Content
  • 2 = Site navigation links
  • 3 = More links and other items
  • 4 = Search box
  • 0 = Top of page

In Internet Explorer you will need to press ENTER to activate the link.

Technical Details

Web Standards

The Cosmic Ledger website has been designed to the highest web standards. The markup is valid HTML 4.01 strict. Its presentation including layout relies solely on Cascading Style Sheets. In addition to valid HTML and CSS, this website tries to comply with web content accessibility standards, such as WCAG.

Visual Design

The text size used by this website is decided by the visitor through his/her web browser. Unless he/she has chosen tiny text there will simply be no tiny text. Only relative font sizes are used.

Cascading Style Sheets are used for presentation and layout. All significant content is still available when Style Sheets are not.

A semi-liquid layout avoids horizontal scrollbars, keeps lines at legible lengths, and allows the user to increase the text size without breaking layout or wasting screen space.

Links

Links are written to make sense out of context. Two links of the same name always point to the same target. Many links have title attributes describing the link target in greater detail.

Images

All meaningful images have meaningful alt text. The text is there to replace the image – not describe it.

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