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Links to other websites and PDF files open in the same browser window rather than opening a new window. Visitors wishing to open a new window can hold the SHIFT key (Windows) or Control key (Macintosh) while clicking on the link.
All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics are implemented as background graphics in the cascading style sheet.
All pages on this site are WCAG AAA approved, complying wih all priority 1, 2, and 3 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. This is always a judgement call; many accessibility features can be measured, but many can not. We have reviewed all the guidelines and believe that all these pages are in compliance.
Most pages on this site validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict. This is not a judgement call; a program can determine with 100% accuracy whether a page is valid XHTML.
(Plug-ins such as Google Maps and elements of the Drupal Content Management System do not validate. This is being progressed.)
Most pages on this site validate as CSS version 2. This is not a judgement call; a program can determine with 100% accuracy whether a page is valid CSS2.
(Elements of the Drupal Content Management System do not validate. This is being progressed.)
All pages on this site use structured semantic markup. H1 tags are used for page titles, H2 tags for section titles.