Accessibility

“The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.”— Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor of the World Wide Web

Our aim is to provide visitors an enriching and well-composed website built on graceful styling. Stripped free of decorative elements, we want to foster a pleasing and enriching web experience. We’re committed to providing an online environment that is accessible for everyone, including individuals with disabilities.

This précis describes the site’s layout and navigation as we continually enhance the user experience with accessibility in mind. If you have questions or comments about the accessibility or other functional attributes of this site, please contact us via ‘webservices@so-point.com’.

Objectives

The main goal of the site is to present key themes of our business through fluid, device-responsive design and clear content that we hope informs and engages our readers.

The site presents a grid-based, wide banner look anchored to each of five principle content sections along with secondary highlight pages, left-banner and navigational configurations. A vertical scroll is used to give the site depth, with clearly-labelled buttons provided encouraging users to drill down for more granular content.  The composition of each page is organized around a grid geometry.

Standard compliance

The South Point site aims to have all pages validating HTML5 standards. All pages use CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) allowing for user-defined stylesheets. Users should note that although this site supports basic rendering for legacy browsers, accessibility features are optimized for browsers complying with the standards. In the interests of security and optimizing your browser experience, using the latest version of any browser is highly recommended.

Recommended browsers

Macintosh: Safari, Firefox, Camino, Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera, etc., latest releases. Windows/Linux: Chrome, Firefox latest releases.

HTML5 Features

• We are currently using WAI-ARIA Document Landmark Roles as set out in W3C Accessibility Initiative. This new, recently updated set of features may not be supported by older versions of browsers, but we have found their inclusion to be helpful for the vast majority of users.

• Responsive layout – this site uses “responsive CSS” to resize content so that it will fit on nearly any kind of device on which it is displayed. Images and text resize to a fluid width depending on browser window size. Occasionally, some features that do not render or work well on smaller (i.e. mobile) screen devices will be hidden via CSS in order to provide a better browsing experience – however this only occurs as a last resort.

Your Feedback

Feedback on the usability and accessibility of this website is welcome and appreciated. If you have any comments, please contact webservices@so-point.com.

This page was last updated on May 10, 2020.

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