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Our Accessibility Page
We make every effort to make this website available to all regardless of individual disability/ability. However, if you do encounter difficulties, please contact us and we will try to improve the website to reflect your needs. Please contact us at info@confidtech.com. If you would prefer to contact us by phone, we can be reached at 914.751.3546. We welcome your help making our website accessible for everyone!
We have built a standards based website, our goal is to make it as accessible as possible. Our website uses XHTML and CSS .
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) guidelines have been utilized during the development of this website and its content.
Site Accessibility Features
This site employs many features to make information more accessible:
- All images utilize ALT attributes
- All form controls are appropriately and explicitly labeled.
- We provide an email address as an alternative form of access for our online forms
- The bottom of every page contains a footer, which has a site copyright statement, accessibility statement link, sitemap link and contact page link.
- The site can be navigated without the use of a mouse (see instructions below)
- Many links have title attributes which describe the link in greater detail, unless the text of the link already fully describes the target. The ‘title’ tag is used to provide additional information about links where necessary.
- Links are written to make sense out of context.
- The first link in every page is a "Skip to content"; it is to skip directly to the main content area of the page.
- This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.
- Page formatting is achieved with CSS to ensure that the semantic structure of the information is preserved
- All pages are designed with separate cascading style sheets, so they can be replaced by user–defined style sheets
- This site follows World Wide Web Consortium, W3C, recommendations and accessibility guidelines
Metadata
Metadata has been added to all pages to provide important orientation information to users. The metadata provided includes:
- An iinformative page title
- The document language
- A !DOCTYPE statement to validate to a published formal grammar
- A description of the site's content
- Keywords describing the site's contents
Navigation
- Primary site navigation is located near the top of each page (site-wide) below the header.
- A consistent navigation structure has been provided on all pages of this site.
- A link to the home page is available on each page
- All navigation links utilize title tags. The title of each navigation button may be viewed in some browsers by placing the mouse pointer over the link.
- Links are displayed clearly and in context.
- Navigation menus are marked up as HTML lists and styled with CSS.
Tab indexing
The site is designed to make tabbing through a page easy. The order for tab indexing in a page is as follows:
- Skip to content
- Header/Main Navigation Bar
- Side Bar/ Secondary Navigation Area
- Breadcrumb Trail
- Main Content Area
- Footer/Lower Navigation Area
Color Combinations
- The site has been designed using colors that should be both visually appealing and yet provide enough contrast for users with vision related disabilities.
- Foreground and background colors have been used that provide a good level of contrast and therefore easy to read.
- Throughout the site, color is never used as the only way to convey information.
Access Keys
- By pressing the ALT + S keys together you can Skip the navigation bar an proceed directly to the content area of the page.
Standards Compliance
- All pages on this site utilize XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
- All pages on this site use valid markup, validated using the W3C XHTML validation service
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