Accessibility statement
This is the official accessibility statement for the Terex-PPM website. We want to make the content of the site as accessible as possible and welcome your feedback.
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.
Access keys are defined because not all users are able to use a mouse, and several alternative browsing devices do not employ a ‘point and click’ interface.
All pages on this site define the following access keys:
- Access key 0 - Home page
- Access key 1 - Products
- Access key 2 - Service
- Access key 3 - Parts
- Access key 4 - Used cranes
- Access key 5 - Shop
- Access key 6 - Career
- Access key 7 - Search
- Access key 8 - Accessibility statement
- Access key 9 - Feedback
Standards compliance
The Terex-PPM web site follows the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recommendations for Extensible HyperText Markup Language 1.0 and Cascading StyleSheets 2. In both cases (XHTML and CSS), the code of all pages is valid.
Document structure and semantic markup
The content of each page is contained in structured semantic XHTML. For example, <h1> tags are used for page titles and <h2> tags are used for main page headings. Similarly, acronyms are marked up with <acronym> tags. Emphasis is added using the meaningful <em> and <strong> tags, rather than <i> (italics) and <b> (bold) tags, which are merely visual.
Logically ordered documents make sense when read (by text-only browsers, for instance) in a linear fashion. Markup structured in this way has the advantage of providing some web devices with a quick summary of the content of a page, by listing titles, headings and links, for example. Semantic tags provide alternative browsers (especially screen readers) with the opportunity to add meaning to the content of a page. Using structural markup also improves automated searching, both within the site and by search engines.
Navigation aids
A link to the search facility (access key 7) is provided on each page of the web site.
Links
Where appropriate, links are provided with extra information in the title attribute of the <a> tag. In conventional browsers, this detail usually appears as a tooltip when the mouse hovers over a link. Screen readers and other devices also have methods of reading or displaying this information.
Wherever possible, link text is written to make sense when taken out of context. Browsing devices that can extract a list of links from a page will therefore render meaningful content.
There are no javascript: pseudo links to content in the site. This means that browsers that do not support JavaScript and users who have disabled JavaScript are not excluded from any content. It also allows search engines, which do not execute JavaScript code when indexing the web, to access all the content of the site.
Only links to other websites will open in new windows.
Images
All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics include null ALT attributes.
Visual design
This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.
This site uses only relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified "text size" option in visual browsers. Resizing the text in this way may affect the layout of the page. Using the browser's own mechanism in this way, however, gives users greater control over the text size displayed, since many users requiring larger text will have set this in their web browsing preferences.
If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.
Accessibility references
- W3 accessibility guidelines, which explains the reasons behind each guideline.
- W3 accessibility techniques, which explains how to implement each guideline.
- W3 accessibility checklist, a busy developer's guide to accessibility.
Accessibility services
- Bobby, a free service to analyze web pages for compliance to accessibility guidelines.
- HTML Validator, a free service for checking that web pages conform to published HTML standards.
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