Accessibility Statement

Net Shift Media has done our best to make our site easily accessible to users of all platforms, browsers, resolutions, and Internet devices. This includes users who have disabilities, although, by developing our site to meet these guidelines we have ensured a much easier, user-friendly interface for all of our visitors. We have built this site to conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines as set out by the W3C. This resource will be continually updated as new accessibility techniques are developed.

Accessibility Checking

Although there are tools available to check a web sites accessibility status, human experience and usability testing are the only possible methods of confirming such accessibility initiatives. We regularly test our web site with common browser features turned off (such as cascading style sheets, javascript, and images) as well as use text browsers to ensure the readability and usability of our work. More importantly we test our site with various web browsers aside from Microsoft Internet Explorer, and also use multiple platforms such as Mac OSX and Linux along with Microsoft Windows.

Web Standards

As part of our accessibility initiative, we have developed our site to meet the HTML 4.01 spec as laid out by the W3C. These standards ensure interoperability with multiple browsers, as well as platforms, and equally as important – search engines.

Search Engines

Search engines represent the most basic, disabled user on the web. They do not understand images, sounds, video, Flash, and cannot see your web site as you do through a computer screen. Part of our accessibility testing ensures that search engines are able to navigate and index all of the content on our web site, making it easier for you to find us in search engines.

Summary

To summarize what we have done to meet these goals:

All plugin-related content like Flash, QuickTime, Windows Media will have alternate content provided for users who are either unable to display such content, have the plug-ins uninstalled or disabled.
All javascript related content will have alternate content methods for users who have javascript either disabled, or who cannot display javascript.
Links have been written such that they make sense out of context.
Images make use of the ALT attribute
Titles have been used wherever accronyms are used, to provide full descriptions of accronyms

We have built the web site to conform to the HTML 4.01 "web standard", which includes the following benefits:

Less HTML code means file size is smaller so each web page downloads quicker.
Reduction in file size means less bandwidth for our web server, freeing up resources.
Better compatibility with search engines.

Access Keys

Access keys allow users to navigate throughout a site with the use of keyboard, rather than a mouse. Think of them as shortcut keys for your web site. Access keys are used by pressing ALT + access key (on Windows) or Control + access key (on Macintosh).

Access Key N - Skip to Navigation
Access Key S - Skip to Content
Access Key 1 - Home page
Access Key 2 - Company page
Access Key 3 - Services page
Access Key 4 - Portfolio page
Access Key 5 - Contact page
Access Key 6 - Net Shift