Accessibility Statement

Images

All images have alt text in order to allow screen readers to speak the name while using a screen reader. Purely decorative graphics include null ALT attributes.

Links

• All pages use meaningful links in order to make sense even out of context.
• 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).
• No links are formed using javascipt. This takes away the dependency on javascript being enabled on the user's computer.

Html Language

Users who are reading the document in Braille will be able to substitute the appropriate control codes (markup) where language changes occur to ensure that the Braille translation software will generate the correct characters.

XHTML 1.0 Strict

All pages were validated using XHTML 1.0 Strict which allows the determination of XHTML compliance.

Page Title

The title of the page is meaningful and describes the page that the user is on. This allows anyone to see easily (or hear with a screen reader) where they are on the site.

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, and Firefox 2.0 you can use shift+ALT.

All pages on this site define the following access keys:

• Access key 1 - Home page
• Access key 2 - Skip over navigation
• Access key 9 - Feedback
• Access key 0 - Accessibility statement

Font/Text

This site uses only relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified "text size" option in visual browsers.

Visual Design

• This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.
• This site separates visual design from markup and allows greater area of users/technologies to use the site, by using div containers.

No popups

This site does not contain popups, as these confuse screen readers and other aids, and further impairs the mobility challenged.

Last updated marker

Every page on this site shows when the site was last updated, a user can easily read when the site was last updated to see if anything has changed and whether or not they should take the time to read or listen to the site.

Search

• The upcoming events and past performances pages have a search box for easier searching of events.
• All search results are organized in a fashion that it is easy to navigate thru them.

Tables

Are organized in a fashion where it rows and columns have headers describing for the screen reader what is in it.

Forms

All forms have labels that are easily read and pertain to what the member is entering. They are also clickable and goes to the matching element.

Headers

This site uses h1, h2, and h3, in order to allow information to allow information to be organized in such a fashion that it can be read easily. h1 are for main page titles, h2 for subtitles, and h3 are for content section headers.

For more information about accessibility please visit the Knowbility site.