FastTrack  on learning to cook

and Cooking Reference

Also Known As FTLtCaCR

 

Accessibility statement

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This is the accessibility statement for FastTrack On Learning to Cook.  If you have any questions or comments, feel free to contact us.  This is a work in progress.   We have made attempts to make the information accessible to people with disabilities, but as yet, they are untested and until they are, we will make no claims.   This site is also a learning application and as such uses interactive and programmatic techniques to reinforce the learning process for people without disabilities.  It is our intention to develop alternate access paths and content for people with disabilities.

Mozilla

This application was written with the use of Mozilla based browsers (and especially FireFox) as the viewing application of choice.  For example, FireFox and Mozilla have a sidebar and "Tabbed Browsing".  "Tabbed Browsing" allows for, in our opinion, a better way to organize and keep multiple pages for reference open.  At this time certain features are only available for users of FireFox.

Visual design

  1. This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.

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

  3. Most pages have been designed to resize gracefully so that horizontal scrollbars are not need until a very small view port is used

Low vision and color blindness

People with low vision and color blindness problems can switch "Display" schemes with the Switch Theme page from the manin menu.  It is possible to increase or decrease your font size in Firefox from the view menu.

Mozilla

Standards compliance

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This site uses many features that are designed to make its content accessible to a wide audience. New features and extensions will be added to help any person wishing to use this information

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Many of the priority 1, 2, and 3 guidelines of the W3C  Web Content Accessibility Guidelines have been implemented. It is our intent to provide the same functionality for people with disabilities; however, we feel that this alternate presentation should not interfere with the overall goals of our application. For example, we use moving images as a technique to increase attention. Rather than provide descriptions of these images, we feel that allowing for the substitution of sounds would be a more appropriate solution.

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Most of the U.S. Federal Government Section 508 Guidelines have been implemented.

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In general, structured semantic markup is used. H2 tags are used for main titles, H3 tags for subtitles.

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Users of Screen readers will find "SkipLinks" to skip over our banners on each page and other visual information not pertinent to the main content of the page.

Navigation aids

Links

  1. Many links have title attributes which describe the link in greater detail, unless the text of the link already fully describes the target.

  2. Navigation Links are coded as underlined text links and buttons a set of two standard butons

  3. A full table of contents is available.

  4. It is possible to use the tab and return keys to navigate to forms, enter data and activate the actions.

  5. A search option is available.

Images

  1. All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics include null ALT attributes.

  2. Images which are used to convey significant information include LONGDESC attributes or inline descriptions to explain the significance of each image to non-visual readers.

Accessibility references

  1. W3 accessibility guidelines, which explains the reasons behind each guideline.

  2. W3 accessibility techniques, which explains how to implement each guideline.

  3. W3 accessibility checklist

  4. U.S. Federal Government Section 508 accessibility guidelines.