Web Site Accessibility
All the pages of this web site have been written, and validated, as XHTML 1.0 Strict and use a validated cascading style sheet to determine their visual layout. If the browser or device you use to view this web site does not support stylesheets then the content of each page will 'degrade gracefully' and should remain readable.
All of the pages on this web site, except those in the photo gallery section, conform to W3C's "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0", available at http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WAI-WEBCONTENT-19990505, level Double-A.
Accessibility Options
Navigation
This web site employs the use of access keys, to ease navigation of the site when not using a mouse. Access keys are defined on the web site and are supported by most modern browsers.
This web site uses the following access keys:
- [1] home
- [2] about shorinji kempo
- [3] shorinji kempo in lebanon
- [4] news & events
- [5] photo gallery
- [6] faqs
- [7] links
- [8] accessibility options
- [9] site map
- [0] contact webmaster
In certain sections, sub menus appear, which can be easily navigated using the tab key.
General Guide to Using Access Keys
For Mozilla Firefox & Netscape Navigator: Press and hold the 'Alt' key, then press the required access key.
For Internet Explorer: Press and hold the 'Alt' key, next press the access key, then release both keys and press the 'Enter' key.
N.B. If you are using a Mac, follow the steps above but substitute the 'Ctrl' key for the 'Alt' key.
For Opera: Press and hold the 'Shift' key, next press 'Escape' , then release both keys and press the required access key.
Fonts and Colours
All the pages of this web site use Arial font, which a is sans-serif font suited to being read from a screen. Foreground and background color combinations have been chosen with the aim of providing sufficient contrast, while remaining visually pleasing.
If you wish, you can overide the font type, font size, font colours and background colours, used on this site, by adjusting your browser's preferences settings (usually found under the 'Tools' menu). This may be useful if you have limited or low vision.
As this site specifies font sizes using relative sizing as opposed to absolute sizing, it is also possible to quickly adjust the font sizes, in visual browsers, by using the 'text size' or equivalent option (usually found under the 'View' menu).
Images
To aid those who are using text only web browsers or screen reader software, alt attributes have been attached to each of the images used on this web site. If you want to view the pages without the images, you can prevent them from being dispayed by turning off the 'show images' or equivalent option in your browser (usually found under either the 'View' or 'Tools' menu).
Contact the web master
If you have any suggestions for improving the accessibility of this web site, or any more general comments or queries regarding this site, then please contact the web master using the form below.
N.B. You can use the following access keys to navigate directly to the fields: [A] - Name, [B] - Email, [C] - Message.


