Accessibility Features of this Site

Throughout the creation of this web site, Universal Accessibility was a principle development guideline. Universal Accessibility ensures that all users can access the content of this site, regardless of the technology they use. It ensures that users with various disabilities (who may be using various adaptive technologies) can still access the important content of this site. It also ensures that users of alternative or cutting edge technologies such as web enabled cell phones may also access the content. Universal Accessibility is good for all!

A number of fundimental guidelines used include, but are not limited to:

1. Every graphic image will have an "alt" tag and a short description that is intuitive to the user. If a graphic image is used as a navigation element, it will contain text description and direction that is intuitive to the user.
2. Every graphic image that uses an image map, alternative text of the hyperlink will be provided.
3. The web site will have descriptive, intuitive text links and avoid the use of vague references such as "click," "here," "link," or "this."
4. The use of frames will be avoided since they cannot be read intelligently by screen readers, create navigation problems and are not supported by all browsers. This site cannot be held responsible for sites outside our control that utilize frames.
5. Tables will include textual information displayed in a linear form across the table, as well as cells will be named to aid as reference.
6. Background colors will be avoided since color schemes can create problems with legibility.
7. To ensure inter-operability all pages contained within this site will validate to "published formal grammers", as defined by the W3C.
8. Multiple browser testing will be conducted on the current versions of Netscape Navigator*, Internet Explorer and Lynx, as well as using screen reading technologies such as Jaws and Home Page Reader.

More information regarding Accessible web development may be found at www.w3.org/WAI. While extensive testing was done on this site to ensure these goals were met, if you are a user of either adaptive technology or alternative technology and you experience any problems, the webmaster would appreciate hearing from you so that these problems may be corrected. Write to him at webmaster@clergyabuse.net

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(* IMPORTANT NOTE to users of Netscape Version 4.7 or lower. This 3 year old browser does not support current industry standards regarding accessible design principles. While the site may "look" odd to users of this browser, rest assured you are not missing any of the important content. If you can, the webmaster encourages you to upgrade your current browser to one of the next generation FREE browsers currently on the market, such as the latest versions of Netscape, Opera, or Internet Explorer.)

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