Accessibility statement

This is the accessibility statement for FastTrack On Learning to Cook.   If you have any questions or comments, feel free to contact us.  This is a work in progress.   We have made attempts to make the information accessible to people with other disabilities, but as yet, they are untested and until they are, we will make no claims.   This site is also a learning application and as such uses interactive and programmatic techniques to reinforce the learning process for people without disabilities.   It is our intention to develop alternate access paths and content for people with disabilities.

Mozilla

This application was written with the use of Mozilla based browsers as the viewing application of choice. At this time certain features are only available for users of Mozilla.   For example, Mozilla has a sidebar and "Tabbed Browsing"   Users of Mozilla can hit the F9 key and bring up a table of contents and other features. "Tabbed Browsing" allows for, in our opinion, a better way to organize and keep multiple pages for reference open.   Users of other browsers will have to navigate to these features in separate browser pages

Visual design

1. This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.
2. If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets, the content of each page is still readable.
3. Most pages have been designed to resize gracefully so that horizontal scrollbars are not need until a very small view port is used

Low vision and color blindness

People with low vision and color blindness problems can switch "Display" schemes on the Switch Theme page.  It is possible to increase or decrease your font size in many browsers, see the note for each browser below.

Access keys

Most browsers support jumping to specific links by typing keys defined on the web site. On Windows, you can press ALT + an access key; on Macintosh, you can press Control + an access key.

All pages on this site define the following access keys:

• Access key 1 - Home page
• Access key 3 - Table of contents
• Access key 4 - Search
• Access key 8 - Copyright
• Access key 0 - Accessibility statement
• Access key H - The Short Story - Brings up a Concise Summary of the page when available

Mozilla Base browsers

• Mozilla F9 - brings up the Sidebar with the table of contents and other useful tools
• View Text Zoom - to make the text either large or smaller
• Other Keyboard Shortcuts - Access Help and view the Mozilla Keyboard Shortcuts or type Access Key K

Internet Explorer Browsers

• Use the Alt 3 for table of contents and other useful tools
• View Text Size - to make the text either large or smaller

Standards compliance

1. This site uses many features that are designed to make its content accessible to a wide audience. New features and extensions will be added to help any person wishing to use this information
2. Many of the priority 1, 2, and 3 guidelines of the W3C  Web Content Accessibility Guidelines have been implemented. It is our intent to provide the same functionality for people with disabilities; however, we feel that this alternate presentation should not interfere with the overall goals of our application. For example, we use moving images as a technique to increase attention. Rather than provide descriptions of these images, we feel that allowing for the substitution of sounds would be a more appropriate solution.
3. Most of the U.S. Federal Government Section 508 Guidelines have been implemented.
4. In general, structured semantic markup is used. H2 tags are used for main titles, H3 tags for subtitles.
5. Users of Screen readers will find "SkipLinks" to skip over our banners on each page and other visual information not pertinent to the main content of the page.

Navigation aids

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.
2. Navigation Links are coded as text links, not images.
3. A full table of contents is available.
4. It is possible to use the tab and return keys to navigate to forms, enter data and activate the actions.
5. A search option is available.

Images

1. All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics include null ALT attributes.
2. Images which are used to convey significant information include LONGDESC attributes or inline descriptions to explain the significance of each image to non-visual readers.

Accessibility references

1. W3 accessibility guidelines, which explains the reasons behind each guideline.
2. W3 accessibility techniques, which explains how to implement each guideline.
3. W3 accessibility checklist
4. U.S. Federal Government Section 508 accessibility guidelines.

• Accessibility statement
• Search
• Table of contents
• Terms of use
• Mozilla Short Cut keys