James Cook

Section 508 Compliance

The pages on this site mostly conform to the U.S. Federal Government Section 508 Guidelines. The one area where it may not is the markup of James Cook's email address, which is obfusicated by Javascript to prevent harvesting of his email address by Spambots.

Standards compliance

HTML5

This site conforms to HTML5 Strict with almost no errors. The only non-conformance we have is the use of a standard attribute ('rel') on some of the links of images where its use is not standard. We did this so we can use the Colorbox Javascript gallery. This attribute will be less necessary with HTML5's data- set of custom attributes.

Uses Only CSS

We use only CSS for the visual layout, typesetting and colors for this site. Relative font sizes are expressed in 'em's and are compatible with the user-specified "text size" option in visual browsers.

If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.

Semantic HTML Markup

All pages on this site use well-structured semantic markup. H2 tags are used for main titles, H3 tags for subtitles, lists are marked up with UL and so forth. This greatly increases the accuracy and ease of parsing by screen readers and other assisstive technologies.

Media Accessibility

Alt and Title Attributes for Images

All images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics are used as backgrounds in CSS and therefore do not need ALT attributes.

Closed Captioning for Videos

Adding closed captioning and alternate descriptive audio is in progress. Thank you for your patience.

Colors & Contrast

A ratio of 4.5 to 1 (4.5:1) is the "minimum contrast for regular sized text" according to the AA Level of WCAG. This site's ratio is exactly 4.5 to 1 with a foreground color of #e3e3e3 on a background color of #666666.