Accessibility

To ensure that this website is accessible to all user groups - regardless of ability - globalmethconference.com have implemented a number of accessibility features throughout this site, details of which can be found below.

Note that you may also need to review the accessibility features in your browser.

Accessibility features on globalmethconference.com

Standards compliance

All our pages conform to Level A compliance as specified by the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, and endorsed by the Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB), and the majority of Level AA and AAA requirements are also met.

All pages validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict and use semantic, structured markup.

All stylesheets used on globalmethconference.com validate.

Access keys

Access keys, introduced in HTML 4.0, replace the need to use a mouse for navigation - where operating system and browser allow. Windows users can press ALT + the access key to jump directly to the page that the access key represents; Mac users can press CONTROL + the access key, followed by ENTER to activate the link.

The UK government website guidelines outline a standard set of access keys, which globalmethconference.com follows as closely as possible. The following access keys are available on every page on globalmethconference.com:

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Skip navigation / jump to page contents
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Home page
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Site map
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Exec planning committee
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Programme & abstracts
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Sponsorship & exhibition
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Travel information
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Methamphetamine
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Terms
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Registration
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Accessibility statement
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Email disclaimer

Tab order

globalmethconference.com have attempted to create a logical tab order for the most important elements of each page of this site. this allows users who rely on tabbing, rather than the mouse, to quickly reach the pages that they want.

Structured and semantic markup

The code or markup behind this site is semantic and structured. Page headings are marked as such: Global Methamphetamine Conference is a H1, page headings use H2 tags, sub headings use H3 tags, and so on; lists of links, including navigation, and marked up as lists.

Images

We have deliberately kept images to a minumum on globalmethconference.com, not only to add to the clean design, but also so that meaning and context isn't lost if the user is unable to view these images. Where images have been used, for the navigation elements and page headings, we have still used text, utilising cascading style sheet's (CSS) image replacement methods. Where standard, images have been used, an ALT attribute has been included: containing a descriptive value where necessary, or an empty value if the image is purely cosmetic.

Colours

globalmethconference.com has attempted to ensure that this site's font and background colour combinations allow the information to remain clear under different colour blindness conditions.

Forms

where globalmethconference.com uses forms, form text is associated with form fields by using LABEL tags.

Links

All links have TITLE attributes which describe the link in greater detail, ensuring the link makes sense out of context, and to give any necessary information, such as 'opens in a new window'.