As a news organization dedicated to reporting on assistive technology and closely related issues, ATechNews.com takes accessibility to our website seriously. Please read the following information about ATechNews.com accessibility so far:
1. ATechNews.com uses a Network Solutions web design product to create and maintain the site. This is a combination of CSS, HTML, and javascript. The website has been augmented with the use of additional HTML and javascript.
2. This website is best viewed using Internet Explorer.
3. News articles on individual web pages can be copied and pasted into a Word document, for example.
4. The website uses contrasting colors for the page title and its text and for the navigation bar and its text. The backgrounds for the page title and navigation bar are dark and the text is white.
5. The main body of each web page is white with black text.
6. The website does not rely on color alone for hyperlinks. The hyperlinks are also in bold and, on mouseover, underline.
7. The website incorporates descriptive links throughout the website. There is also an URL for every external link identified in news articles posted on or after November 24, 2008.
8. The website includes a descriptive alternate tag for every image included on the website. This alt-tag gives a very brief description of the image and/or where the visitor will be taken if the image is clicked. If the link is to an external webpage, the URL is included in alt-tags added on or after November 24, 2008.
9. The style sheets meet W3C standards.
10. The website passed Cynthia Says accessibility testing.
11. There remain errors on almost all H3 tags within the page headers.