Notes:  these pages were generated with Microsoft Frontpage 2002.  Compliance is determined partially automatically and partially by self-assessment.  If you find an obstacle on this site, please contact us so we can fix it!

Priority 2 Requirement

Relative Size and Position--Microsoft Frontpage 2002 defines absolute font sizes, such as "1" and "2".  Web Content Accessibility Guidelines require relative font sizes, such as "+1" and "-1".  The reason for this is so that the visitor can control the font size with his or her own browser.  People with visual impairments can then set the type on the page to a larger size, enabling them to read the site.  It makes the site more accessible.

This font behavior in Frontpage 2002 cannot be modified by the web page designer.

Priority 2 Check

Avoid Use of Obsolete Language Features if Possible--the "font" tag, automatically generated by Frontpage.  This blanket requirement helps ensure that all browsers can interpret the pages.

Priority 3 Requirements

Provide a Summary for Tables--The layout of these pages is handled with tables.  Microsoft Frontpage does not provide the option to define a "summary" in the Table Properties tab.  This item is analogous to the "alt" feature for pictures.  Summaries can be defined by hand by editing the HTML, and this has been done for this site.  The text reads, "Table for formatting only".  Frontpage generates additional table code, however, which cannot be edited.

The reason why a summary is requested is that some people use a browser that reads the page aloud.  Tables are read line for line.  Without a visual cue and without summary information, a table read line for line can be confusing.

Separate Adjacent Links with More than Whitespace--this error refers to the horizontal and navigational bars at the top and left sides of the page.  Without the graphics, the links look like one long multi-worded link.  These bars are automatically generated by Frontpage.  A partial workaround is provided in the form of a link ("skip navigation bars") to bypass the navigational bars.  The bypass link appears before both the graphical bars at the top and left and the text bars at the bottom of the page.  A visitor who uses the tab key to advance through the links on a page can use these links to skip to the main text of the page.  (a Section 508 requirement)

Note that the text navigational links in the page footer are separated by square brackets, [ ], in addition to whitespace.

Note:  cascading style sheets have been implemented for this web site to work around a bug in Frontpage 2002.  This site uses a theme, and in Frontpage 2002, themes use graphical elements for, among other things, bullets.  All graphical elements should have alternate text strings associated with them (ALT), including bullets.  Frontpage 2002 neither allows ALT strings to be set nor allows ordinary bullets to be set in the theme.  The cascading style sheets allow for ordinary bullets to be set.  The page appears to load first the ordinary bullet and then the graphical one.  The Bobby site does not generate an error when this technique is applied, but it is possible that this workaround does not completely address the problem.

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