Website Accessibility Features:

The xxxWindsor! Network is committed to standards-compliance and developing this website to conform to the recommendations and specifications of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Our decision to do this allows us to ensure the content of our website is accessible to more browsers and devices (e.g. Braille readers, PDAs, cell phones, and text-only browsers).

We make every effort to ensure our code meets current recommendations and specifications for XHTML 1.0 Strict and validated CSS Style Sheets and valid PHP Coding. If you are aware if any instances where our code does not work in any of the above browsers or does not meet the previously mentioned standards, please let us know.

For more information on designing for web standards, please visit the following websites: Web Standards Switch and the Web Standards Project

Keyboard Shortcut Access Keys

Most browsers support jumping to specific links by typing keys defined on the web site. For greater convenience keyboard shortcuts have been included within this website.

All pages on this site define the following access keys. To access these shortcuts hold down either the "Alt" key (on a PC) or "Ctrl" key (on a Mac) and the shortcut key listed below::

Access key + S - Skip to Page Content(future)
Access key + 1 - Main page
Access key + 2 - Site Map
Access key + 3 - Listing Information
Access key + 4 - Link Trade
Access key + 5 - (undefined)
Access key + 6 - Copyright & Trademarks
Access key + 7 - Website Terms of Use
Access key + 8 - Website Privacy Policy
Access key + 9 - Feedback & Contact Info
Access key + 0 - Accessibility Info
Access key + M - Message Board
Access key + N - Normal Page View(future)
Access key + P - Print Page View(future)
Access key + R - Text Only View(future)
Access key + Z - Site Development Blog

Please note that all keys may not be active on all pages until the final network upgrades are complete.

We are currently working on tab access to allow easier navigation by utlizing the tab button to logically navigate between the links. This will allow the site to be more accessible for those without a mouse.

Title Tags

We have added title tags to all of our headers, titles and links sitewide. This assists those with alternative rendering devices to navigate through the page headers & links to find the specific content or information they are seeking without having to go through the entire content along the way. The added benefit of this is that a small display box will appear with more information as you hover over it with your mouse. Try it out, hover your mouse over any title, heading or link and see for yourself. Your browser must be current and have the ability to read titles, but most currently utilized browsers have this feature.

Link Identification

We have several features to help users distingush between normal text and links on our site. Below you will find out more about these features.

Link Underlining

By ensuring our links are underlined or placed in [brackets] throughout the content area's of our website, we allow users with vision impairments (such as colour blindness) to still differentiate between regular copy text and links.

Link Hover

We have provided the additional feature of underline-overline to our links as well as reverse contrast colour effect. When you hover over a link with your mouse it will be displayed with a line above and a line below the link and highlighted with a different colour.

Link Titles

We have also provides title tags to all of our links that will display information in a small highlight box as you hover over the link. This allows us to provide more info about the link and where it will take you.

How to Change the Look of our Pages

JumpLinx!™:  How to Change Text Size & Colours | How to Change Text Size | How to Change to Plain Layout View | Other Text & Colour Changes 

Your browser settings should work to change the way the page displays based upon your preferences. Our website meets WAI guidelines and are designed for accessibility, flexibility, and user control. However, some browsers do not provide as much user control, and some Web sites, unfortunately, are designed to defeat browser settings. Text resizing does not work well in browsers and Web sites that do not meet accessibility guidelines.

How to Change Text Size & Colours

The xxxWindsor! Web site is designed to let you change the text size, text and background colours, and other display settings through standard browser settings.

How to Change Text Size

Most Web browsers include functionality to let you increase or decrease the text in a Web page. We have a few listed below.

Internet Explorer: View > Text Size > Largest
Firefox: View > Text Size > Increase
Netscape: View > Text Size > Increase
Opera: View > Zoom > %
Safari: View > Make Text Bigger

How to Change to Plain Layout View

The xxxWindsor! Web site is designed to allow you to turn off the style sheets for a plain layout view, for those browsers with that option. This makes the text black on a white background, puts all of the information in one column or linearized, leaves the content images, if any, and leaves out the background images. Below are a couple of examples.

Firefox: View > Page Style > No Style
Opera: View > Style > Author Mode

Other Text & Colour Changes

Many browsers provide functionality to set different aspects of font and colour. Usually by utilizin the browsers Tools and/or preferences option.