Accessibility statement

I’ve tried to make this site accessible to everybody, regardless of what browsing device is used. If you find something that needs improvement to make the site even more accessible, please let me know.

High contrast layout

There is a high contrast, single column, large type layout available. It is a bit experimental at the moment, but please do try it out and let me know what you think. A link to switch between the high contrast and normal stylesheets is available on each page, in the page header.

Switch to high contrast layout.

Accesskeys

Most browsers support jumping to specific links by typing keys defined on the web site. This is a potentially very useful feature for many users. However, accesskeys oftan conflict with keyboard shortcuts defined by the browser or operating system. Because of this, 456 Berea Street does not use accesskeys. More information on the problems related to accesskeys is available in the blog post Accesskey problems remain in XHTML 2.

Standards compliance

This site is built on valid HTML 4.01 Strict for structure and CSS for presentation.

A modern web browser like Firefox, Safari or Opera is needed to make the most out of this site, but thanks to the separation of content and presentation it should be accessible to any browsing device, including Internet Explorer.

Navigation aids

All archive pages have rel=previous, next, first, and home links to aid navigation in text-only browsers and screen readers. Mozilla users can also take advantage of this feature by selecting the View menu, Show/Hide, Site Navigation Bar, Show Only As Needed (or Show Always). Opera 7 has similar functionality.

Links

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).

Whenever possible, links are written to make sense out of context.

There are no javascript: pseudo-links. All links can be followed in any browser, even if scripting is turned off. There are no links that open new windows without warning.

Acronyms and abbreviations

Due to its technical nature, this site makes use of many acronyms and abbreviations. Most instances (I may unintentionally have missed some, and others are intentionally not defined every time they occur, like CET.) are defined with the appropriate HTML tag. Here is a (hopefully) complete list of all the acronyms and abbreviations you may see throughout this site:

AOL
America OnLine
ASP
Active Server Pages
CET
Central European Time
CMS
Content Management System
CSS
Cascading Style Sheets
CSS3
Cascading Style Sheets Level 3
DOM
Document Object Model
FIR
Fahrner Image Replacement
HTML
HyperText Markup Language
IE
Internet Explorer
MIME
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
MT
Movable Type
PHP
Hypertext Preprocessor
PNG
Portable Network Graphics
ROTFLMAO
Roll On The Floor Laughing My Ass Off
SQL
Structured Query Language
URL
Unified Resource Locator
US
United States
W3C
World Wide Web Consortium
WaSP
Web Standards Project
WYSIWYG
What You See Is What You Get
XHTML
Extensible HyperText Markup Language
XML
Extensible Markup Language

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Roger Johansson is a Swedish web professional specialising in web standards, accessibility, and usability. More about me and this site.

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