Accessibility Information

At MANOVERBOARD, we strongly believe information on the Web should be available to everybody, including those with disabilities.

This website was designed with Web standards and created to be accessible to nearly all Internet users.

This site meets all Priority 1 and 2 guidelines. It's possible that only a few percent of websites in the world can boast this.

What follows are highlights of the site's accessibility features and a list of resources for further reading. A lot of it is pretty technical. If you have any questions about accessibility, feel free to contact us. (Special thanks to Michael Barrish for not only making the site accessible but for helping write this page.)

Standards Compliance

Every page on MANOVERBOARD.com meets the following accessibility standards benchmarks:

• Complies with Priority 1 and 2 of the W3C’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
• Complies with the U.S. Federal Government’s Section 508 guidelines.

Images

All content images include descriptive ALT attributes to aid users of non-visual browsers.

Visual Design

Cascading style sheets are used for visual layout on all pages.

Relative font sizes are used throughout the site. This means that the text can made larger or smaller in many browsers by changing the browser's text size settings.

If a browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets, the content of each page remains readable.

Tables

Tables on the Web are made for displaying tabular data—not for design. Further, tables pose difficulties for screen reader users, who cannot view columns from top to bottom but must access tabular data in a linear, left-to-right fashion. HTML provides a few simple techniques to make tabular data available to everyone:

• Tables include content summaries accessible to screen reader users.
• Structural markup is used to identify row and column headers, which are associated through markup with their corresponding data cells.

Forms

All form fields include an appropriately positioned label that identifies the purpose of the field. (This is particularly important for screen reader users, who lack the visual clues often used to determine a field's purpose.)

Related Resources

• The Web Standards Project, which promotes the use of standards, which, in turn, is the basis for accessibility.
• WebAIM, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving accessibility to online learning materials.
• Designing More Usable Web Sites, a large list of additional resources.