Accessibility & Web Standards

The following information is “geek-speak” for saying that we have worked hard to design FMSB.com in compliance with the most up-to-date web standards. Compliance with the standards referenced below make it easier for people with disabilities to access our website’s content. We welcome any comments or suggestions you have on our compliance with web standards.

Every effort has been made to have this website comply with the following standards and guidelines:

• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Standard: Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML) 1.1;
• W3C Standard: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS);
• W3C Standard: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Priority 1, 2, & 3;
• U.S. Government Section 508 Guidelines; and,
• hCard Microformat.

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• XHTML 1.0 Transitional
• CSS
• Section 508 Guidelines

NOTE: Due to technical limitations, our search results page uses regular ampersands, when & should be used. We are working to fix this in an upcoming version of our site.

Access Keys

Most browsers support jumping to specific links by typing keys defined on the web site. On Windows, you can press ALT + an access key; on Macintosh, you can press Control + an access key.

There is an access key 0 (Zero) to access this Accessibility Statement. These pages also have access keys:

• h: Home
• 1: Skip Navigation (Go to Main Content)
• a: About Us
• c: Contact Us
• p: Privacy

Other Efforts to Increase Accessibility

• img tags include descriptive ALT attributes.
• Links are written to make sense even when they are taken out of context.
• Two links with the same link text point to the same webpage; similarly, two links to the same page usually have the same text.
• No links open new windows without warning. An icon () will be displayed in most browsers along with a warning when the mouse hovers over the link.
• This website use cascading style sheets (CSS) for visual layout, which can be disabled with certain browsers; e.g., Firefox.

hCard Microformat

FMSB.com’s listings, while presented in regular text, are structured in a way that can be meaningful and reusable to tools that recognize the hCard format. Users with an hCard-enabled browser or other tool can export our listings to the widely accepted, but not-intended-for Internet, vCard format to add the listing to their contact software, such as Microsoft Outlook. Today, there are few tools that take advantage of hCard, but this will change as adoption of this format grows.

See the microformats website and the microformats wiki for general information about microforats and the hCard Specification for information specifically about hCard.