Northwest Navigator: News and Information from Navy Region Northwest in Washington State's Puget Sound, including Bremerton, Kitsap County, Oak Harbor, and Everett

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Compliance and Accessibility Statement

Standards compliance

  1. All pages on this site validate as XHTML 1.1.
  2. This site's CSS documents are all valid CSS, as tested by the W3C.
  3. All pages on this site is WCAG A approved, complying wih all priority 1, 2, and 3 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
  4. All pages on this site are Section 508 approved, complying with all of the U.S. Federal Government Section 508 Guidelines for accessibility.
  5. All news feeds on this site are valid RSS 2.0 and Atom.

Access keys

Most browsers support jumping to specific links by typing keys defined on the web site. On Windows, you can press ALT + an access key; on Macintosh, you can press Control + an access key.

All pages on this site define the following access keys:

  • Access key 1 - Home page
  • Access key 2 - Skip Navigation
  • Access key 4 - Search
  • Access key 8 - Copyright Info / Terms of Use
  • Access key 9 - Contact
  • Access key 0 - Standards Compliance and Accessibility statement

Links

  1. 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).
  2. Links are written to make sense out of context.

Images

  1. All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics include null ALT attributes.

Visual design

  1. This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.
  2. This site uses only relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified "text size" option in visual browsers.
  3. If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.

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.

Accessibility services

  1. HTML Validator, a free service for checking that web pages conform to published HTML standards.
  2. Cynthia Says, a free service to analyze web pages for compliance to accessibility guidelines.
  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.