Accessibility Statement
Executive Summary
The Humbug Scrub Wildlife Park is a non-profit organization presided over by the Humbug Scrub Heritage Society (Society) as the descendants of Tom Bellchambers. The Society is committed providing accessible website that can be accessed by all users. Accessibility will be achieved by compliance with the W3C Web Accessibility Guidelines (WAG) to achieve triple A compliance levels.
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Web Accessibility
The Humbug Scrub Wildlife Sanctuary Heritage Society is committed to providing an accessible website to all users. Accessibility will be achieved through AAA compliance with the WCAG 1.0 priority levels. It is the policy of the Humbug Scrub Wildlife Sanctuary Heritage Society that all current and future web pages will comply with all three priority levels.
The website validates to W3C strict XHTML and CSS standards and headings are structured according to strict hierarchy.
Current W3C technologies have been employed and deprecated elements and attributes are avoided.
The site functions on a wide range of browsers tested on both MAC and Windows platforms, including older generation 4 browsers such as Netscape 4.7.
Meaningful text equivalents have been provided for every non-text element. Captions are provided for streaming video and transcriptions are provided for audio.
Style sheets are employed to control layout and presentation and pages function when these style sheets are disabled.
Print and audio style sheets are also provided to assist those requiring alternative access to the screen based content.
The natural language of the website is identified via the lang attribute associated with the html element.
Correct mark-up is employed with relative rather than fixed sizing used for layout and font sizing. Pages are fluid and resize to any screen resolution.
Layout tables are not used - layout is achieved via CSS coding.
Pages do not periodically auto-refresh or auto-direct, and the use of pop up windows has been avoided.
Frames are not used.
No pages incorporate content that causes screen flicker, content does not 'blink' and all other possible movement in pages has been avoided.
All event handlers are input device-independent and all features can be accessed via mouse, keyboard and alternative inputting devices.
Information about the general layout of the site is provided via the site map.
Provision is made for user to skip over groups of links via the skip links option.
Shortcut keys are provided using the accesskey option. The accesskeys used throughout this site are documented below:
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Access Keys
The access keys are:
s - skip links
m - site map
a - accessibility
The different key combinations required for accesskeys depending on the browser and platforms are as follows:
Internet Explorer 5 (PC) - Alt + Access Key then press Enter
Internet Explorer 4 (PC) - Alt + Access Key
Internet Explorer 5 (MAC) - Ctrl + Access Key
Internet Explorer 4.5 (Mac) - Access keys not supported
Konqueror (Linux) - Alt + Ctrl + Access Key
Netscape 6 and earlier (PC and Mac) - Access keys not supported
Netscape 7 (PC) - Alt + Access Key
Firefox, Mozilla (Linux) - Alt + Shift + Access Key
Firefox, Mozilla (PC) - Alt + Shift + Access Key
Firefox, Mozilla (Mac) - Ctrl + Access Key
Safari and Omniweb (Mac) - Ctrl + Access Key
Opera - Shift + Escape then release both keys, then press the Access Key
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