semioSolutions is committed to making our website broadly accessible, including to users with disabilities or impairments that occur with aging. For guidance, we look to the accessibility best practices and standards defined by Section 508 of the U.S. Rehabilitation Act and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) of the World Wide Web Consortium Web Accessibility Initiative (W3C WAI).
Since our incorporation, semioSolutions has been working to improve the accessibility of our site. Our processes require new pages to meet a set of accessibility requirements which include:
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Providing aids to navigation for screen reader users such as:
- An invisible link which allows the users to skip navigation links in order to get quickly to the main content of the page.
- Proper markup for identifying the page title.
- Providing text equivalents for images and image map hot spots.
- Providing null text equivalents on decorative images.
- Identifying row and column headers for data tables.
- Programmatically associating labels with form fields.
- Using valid XHTML 1.0 Strict markup language.
- Supporting browser settings for enlarging text and user style sheets.
- Using consistent navigation mechanisms and style of presentation throughout the site.
- Keyboard navigation of web pages.
- Identifying the primary natural language of each page.
- Although JavaScript is used on the semioSolutions Web site, essential function on most pages does not require it. Pages that do use JavaScript for essential function are required to test for compatibility with assistive technology.
- Accessible HTML alternative versions of Flash content.
Accessibility testing using automated tools and manual procedures is performed on new content management applications. Our publicly available pages on semioSolutions.com are monitored regularly using automated tools.
We strive to make our websites accessible and continuously work on accessibility improvements. If you encounter an accessibility problem while accessing our website, please contact us about that problem using the Contact link on the affected page.
Note: semioSolutions is not responsible for the accessibility of third party sites which may be linked from our site.
