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Throughout the creation of this website, Universal Accessibility was a principle development guideline. Universal Accessibility ensures that all users can access the content of this site, regardless of the technology they use. It ensures that users with various disabilities (who may be using different adaptive technologies) can still access the important content of this site. It also ensures that users of alternative or cutting edge technologies such as web enabled cell phones may also access the content. Universal Accessibility is good for all!

A number of fundamental guidelines used include, but are not limited to:

1. Every graphic image will have an "alt text" with a short description that is intuitive to the user. If a graphic image is used as a navigation element, it will contain text description and direction that is intuitive to the user.
2. Every graphic image that uses an image map, alternative text of the hyperlink will be provided.
3. The website will have descriptive, intuitive text links and avoid the use of vague references such as "click," "here," "link," or "this."
4. An alternative form of access will be made available for online forms, such as an email address or phone number.
5. The use of frames will be avoided since they cannot be read intelligently by screen readers, create navigation problems and are not supported by all browsers. This site cannot be held responsible for sites outside our control that utilize frames.
6. Tables will include textual information displayed in a linear form across the table, as well, when required cells will be named to aid as reference.
7. HTML based background colors will be avoided since these types of colour schemes can create problems with legibility. Background and foreground colours will be styled using Cascading Style Sheets, which can be modified by the end user.
8. To ensure inter-operability all pages contained within this site will validate to "published formal grammars", as defined by the W3C.
9. Multiple browser testing will be conducted on the current versions of Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome. This also includes testing web accessibility on mobile devices using operating systems such as Android and iOS.

More information regarding Accessible web development may be found at www.w3.org/WAI.

While extensive testing was done on this site to ensure these goals were met, if you are a user of either adaptive technology or alternative technology and you experience any problems, we would appreciate hearing from you so that these problems may be corrected. Write to us at information@designable.ca.