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The Insurance Women of Ventura County ( I W V C )
Site Diagram.
Real Accessibility.
This site has been designed to be Accessible. (If you don't understand what Accessibility means for web sites then this should have little effect on you anyway.) The goal is to make MOST pages Accessible.
In the paragraph above I said that MOST of the pages will be made Accessible. The exceptions will be pages designed only to be printed. These are contained in the "applications" folder and that name will appear in the URL (address) line of your browser when you go to one of them. These pages are there to be printed and filled out. The pages should be readable by anyone but they aren't totally Accessible based on anyone's guidelines.
As to Accessibility, I will not attempt to fix something that is not broken. As long as it's valid HTML and CSS code and accessible, really accessible, I will not code something just to follow someone's accessibility guideline. I have seen a web site run by a rather well known (amongst us coders) organization which actively promotes web site accessibility. That organization's web site meets basic accessibility guidelines (a fact made abundantly clear by all the logos the site displays about valid this and valid that) but its home page, at the time I started trying to make sites accessible, was not readable in one of the older browsers which I used for testing. (I haven't been to that page for a long time so I don't know it's status right now.) That browser is well known for many incompatibilities with valid HTML and CSS coding but this organization, in its desire to be "accessible", failed to continue to account for these other problems which have existed for years. Therefore, in this older browser, most of the text on their home page was the same color as the background thereby making the text invisible. By doing this that organization's web site quite possibly left out some of the people who only need readable web pages for their normal browser, not accessibility. There is something wrong with that picture and I think they do need to adjust their set.
We need to get real. The key words here are "really accessible". MY guidelines are based on THAT. For example, one of MY guidelines is to place some kind of punctuation in places where it would not normally be used such as at the end of headings and after each item in a list. The purpose of this is to aid at least one of the text readers (maybe all of them) to read these items in a normal "people-type" manner instead of running them all together like one long sentence.
Another of MY guidelines involves any punctution which immediately follows a link. I include that punctuation within the display of the link itself. If the punctuation is separate, that one text reader at least, attempts to pronounce it as a separate word. MY guideline makes the link look improper but, hopefully, I won't let the punctuation sneak into the actual link which you don't normally see.
In these cases, while it may look a little weird, improper even, to a person actually seeing the page, at least it doesn't hurt anything. It may, however, aid someone else who has to "see" the page by using a text reader. On the other hand I will continue to use the cutesy menu on your left. It has buttons that change when you run your mouse cursor over them and again if you click on them. Strictly speaking that is not accessible. However, they still work as links and they have the required ALT tags which describe what they are for. They work just as well with images or without images. Therefore they are "really accessible". They meet MY guidelines. I suppose this site will never be able to legally display anyone's accessibility logo but I won't lose any sleep over that. My site will certainly be more accessible than the one mentioned earlier, the one with all those "valid whatever" logos.
PLEASE NOTE: All documents in the "applications" Folder are designed only to be printed. Because of this, these documents are not necessarily completely Accessible. These documents will have "/applications/" in their address line in your web browser.
Webmaster's Secret.
I use the browser's BACK button (or equivalent) extensively to keep from getting too lost on (or too deep into) a site. This allows your browser to keep track of the route back to where you entered the site so you don't have to remember. You can then go to different areas in a site and still be able to get back to the same beginning point if you want to. Microsoft's gigantic thing is a good example of the type of site where this comes in handy. Of course, I think this site is well laid out but then I may be somewhat prejudiced. If you feel the need, please use your browser's BACK button any time you desire. Just don't go back too far and leave us. If that should happen use FORWARD (or equivalent) to come back to us!!
The IWVC Site Diagram.
If you go to any of the following pages close the new window to return here.
The Insurance Women of Ventura County (IWVC) is the 'HOME' Page.
The Insurance Women of Ventura County (IWVC) Information Center contains information about the IWVC, its meetings, its members and its purpose.
The Insurance Women of Ventura County (IWVC) Bulletin Center contains links to the IWVC Bulletins which are called NewsWaves.
- Links to all the NewsWaves Bulletins currently on this site..
The Insurance Women of Ventura County (IWVC) Site Diagram is this page.
The Insurance Women of Ventura County (IWVC) Contact Us Page is available from all of the Main Pages on the site just like in the next section of this page.
Learn how to contact
The I W V C
by going to the IWVC Contact Us Page. (Close the new window to return here.)
Use your browser's BACK button or equivalent to return here.
Webmaster: James A. Layton
Last Updated: 11-09-2006,
URL of this page: http://www.iwvc.org/iwvcdiag.shtm
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