Access keys
Most browsers support jumping to specific links by typing keys defined on the website. On Windows, you can press ALT + an access key; on the Mac you can press Control + an access key.
All pages on the paasTalk website define the following access keys:
- 1 – Home Page
- 2 – Skip to Main Content
- 4 – Search
- 8 – Privacy Statement
- 9 – Contact Details
- 0 – Accessibility Statement
Navigation aids
Many pages have rel=previous, next, up, and home links to aid navigation in text-only browsers. Firefox users can also take advantage of this feature by selecting the View menu, Show and Hide, Site Navigation Bar, Show Only As Needed (or Show Always).
Links
Many links have titles that describe the link in greater detail, unless the text of the link already fully describes the target (such as the headline of an article or linked page).
Whenever possible, I have written links to make sense out of context. Many browsers (such as JAWS, Home Page Reader, Lynx, and Opera) can extract the list of links on a page and allow the user to browse the list, separately from the page. To aid this, I never repeat link text; two links with the same link text always point to the same address.
There are no javascript: pseudo-links. You can follow all links in any browser, even if you have turned scripting off. There are no links that open new windows without warning.
Visual design
- This website uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.
- This website uses only relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified “text size” option in visual browsers.
- You can still read the content of each page even if your browser does not support style sheets.
