Accessibility Statement
Our site has been designed with accessibility in mind within the confines of using an open source system for our content management. We employ strongly contrasted text, code, symbols, and other visual elements. Site content is presented in clear contrasting colours, common primary fonts, and universal backup fonts. All text presented throughout the site is completely resizable via any browser to accommodate any user preference. To adjust the text size, hold the [Ctrl] (control) button on your keyboard and rotate the scroll wheel on your mouse (Or, alternately, set the text size via your browser: Go to View > Text Size).
In general, the functional accessibility of Total Graphics is self-contained and requires no additional software, plugins, or extensions in order to function properly. Given that you have access to the internet via any relatively modern browser device, this site will deliver its content as intended.
We use JavaScript for our drop-down menu, however our menu iems are accessible when style sheets are disenabled if javascript is . No Flash, or media players are necessary to enjoy the content. Further, for browsing devices that are unable to display CSS, this site renders perfectly usable when CSS styles are disabled or otherwise unavailable.
To ensure quality site design and an accessible user interface, site testing is performed in the three main browsers (Internet Explorer, Chrome and Firefox) for a wide range of attributes, covering everything from usability and accessibility to browser compatibility and standards-compliance. We employ valid, semantically correct XHTML markup and CSS, and we aim for all pages on this site to validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional. We aim for pages on this site use structured semantic mark-up. H1 tags are used for main titles, H2 tags for subtitles. Total Graphics does not currently support Access keys.
Visual design
1. This site uses cascading style sheets and progressive enhancement for visual layout.
2. This site uses only relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified â€"text size†option in visual browsers.
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 currently include empty ALT attributes.
2. Complex images include TITLE attributes or inline descriptions to explain the significance of each image to non-visual readers
Overall, the Total Graphics site is developed and maintained according to the principles of modern website design: progressive enhancement, unobtrusive scripting, backward compatibility, and a strict separation of content, structure, presentation, and behavior. Total Graphics strive to deliver clear, concise content via accessible, standards-compliant design that is free and available for everyone to use and enjoy.
