Trademark's Accessibility Policy

We design websites. And as web professionals with considerable experience of web design software, web standards, accessibility and usability, we care deeply that every website we produce is built responsibly and can be used by everyone. We have made every effort to ensure that our own website meets our own criteria, current best-practice, and relevant legislation. Below we detail some of the most important considerations.

If you do have any feedback, questions, corrections, perhaps want to congratulate us or maybe have a good gripe, then please contact us via admin[ at ]tmprod.com.

Standards compliance

All pages on this site aim to validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict. The validation program can determine with 100% accuracy whether a page is valid XHTML. There are still elements we may purposely use that will make certain pages fail. Trademark uses common sense wherever possible.

All pages on this site also aim to be Section 508 approved, complying with the U.S. Federal Government Section 508 Guidelines.

Browsers

Trademark believes that 100% of all website information should be accessible regardless of the browser used. We have built this website using current web standards to meet this criteria. We, like many others, support standards-compliant browsers as a priority, but make use of progressive enhancement to ensure delivery of information to all browsers.

Trademark believes that 100% of all website information should be accessible regardless of the browser used. We have built this website using current web standards to meet this criteria. We, like many others, support standards-compliant browsers as a priority, but make use of progressive enhancement to ensure delivery of information to all browsers.

Trademark believes in driving web design forwards through responsible implementation and innovation. We strongly support web standards and forward-thinking web design and layout, and we actively make use of new methodologies and latest specifications.

This website makes use of layout and visual techniques made available with the CSS3 specification, and these methods are supported within Safari, Firefox v4 upwards, Opera v11 upwards, Chrome and Internet Explorer v9. Users browsing with IE8 or below, Firefox 3.x or below, and older browsers will still be able to access all information, though the visual experience may be reduced where necessary, following progressive enhancement best-practice.

We would encourage Internet Explorer users to upgrade their copy of IE 5.5 or 6, or abandon this terrible browser altogether and use Firefox, Safari, or Chroms (all available for Windows and Mac).

Handheld Devices

At the time of writing, our new website (version 2) is in "soft-launch", and we have not yet fully implemented the layout and configuration for mobile and handheld devices.

Using web standards, our web pages can still be delivered in their entirety to any mobile device, although we will shortly implement our handheld style sheets to improve the browsing experience on devices with small screens and limited web access.

Links

  • Links are written to make sense out of context - we do not use "click here."
  • Links to downloadable documents or PDFs are clearly marked as such, and links to downloadable contact information is also clearly labeled, accompanied by a Microformat icon.
  • All links to external websites or resources open in the same window for accessibility reasons.

Images

  • All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics include null ALT attributes.
  • All background and decorative images are created with style sheets, and do not require ALT attributes.
  • Our web pages are designed so that the content is still legible and accessible with images turned off, or style sheets unavailable.

Content and structure

  • site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout, and elements of unobtrusive JavaScript for behavior.
  • If your browser or browsing device does not support style sheets at all, or if style sheets are disabled, the content of each page is still readable.
  • If JavaScript is unavailable or disabled, any behavioral functions will degrade and all content will remain accessible.
  • Most of the text on this website can be increased or decreased in size using built-in browser tools. However, to maintain appearance we recommend using a modern browser with text-zoom facilities.