Accessibility Statement
This is the official accessibility statement for the City of Poulsbo Website. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to use the contact form to email us.
Thanks to Dive Into Accessibility, which was the basis for both this accessibility statement and the accessibility features of the website in general.
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.
All pages on this site define the following access keys:
- Access key 1 - Home page
- Access Key 2 - Skip to Content
- Access Key 3 - Search Bar
- Access Key 4 - Alternate Navigation Menu/Site Map
- Access Key 5 - Privacy Policy and Site Disclaimers
- Access key 8 - Contact Form
- Access key 9 - News In Poulsbo
- Access Key 0 - Accessibility Statement
The Contact Form page has an additional Access Key which is used to submit the form. This is Access Key S.
Standards Compliance
All pages on this site validate as HTML 4.01 compliant.
All pages on this site conform to structural, semantic markup. H1 tags are used for the header at the top of the page (the subject of the page), then H2 tags are used for headings within the page, and H3 tags are used for subheadings.
Navigation Aids
All pages have rel=home links to aid navigation in text-only browsers. Netscape 6 and Mozilla users can also take advantage of this feature by selecting the View menu, Show/Hide, Site Navigation Bar, Show Only As Needed (or Show Always).
All pages on this site contain a search box for easier navigation (access key 3).
All pages on this site contain a CSS based drop-down menu for navigation. This menu should work in most browsers. However, in case the menu does not work (such as in IE/Mac or IE with javascript disabled), we have provided a link in the menu to a site map so you can still navigate the site (access key 4).
If you are using a screen reader or you navigate the site using a keyboard, you can skip over the navigation by tabbing to the link at the top of the page. You can also access this link with access key 2.
Links
Many links have title attributes which describe the link in greater detail, unless the text of the link already fully describes the target.
Links are written to make sense out of context.
Images
All content images used on this site are marked up with ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics contain null ALT attributes.
Visual Design
This site uses Cascading Style Sheets for visual layout. If your browser or browsing device does not support Cascading Style Sheets, the layout is still readable.
This site uses only relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified "text size" option in visual browsers.
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Due to the nature of this site, many abbreviations and acronyms can be found on various pages. These are all marked up with the <acronym> tag. They will have a dotted line underneath them, and when you mouse over the acronym or abbreviation, the mouse will change to a question mark and the definition of the word will show up in most browsers. Here is a complete list of the acronyms you may see on this site:
- AWC-RMSA: Association of Washington Cities Risk Management Service Agency
- CAFR: Comprehensive annual Financial Report
- CCR: Consumer Confidence Report
- CIP: City Improvement Plan
- CSS: Cascading Style Sheets
- DNS: Decision of Nonsignificance
- EIS: Environmental Impact Statement
- FTE: Full Time Employee
- GR: General Rule
- HTML: Hyper Text Markup Language
- IE/Mac: Internet Explorer on Mac OSX
- LID: Local Improvement District
- LIS: Land Information System
- MDNS: Mitigated Decision of Nonsignificance
- NSF: Non-sufficient Funds
- PMC: Poulsbo Municipal Code
- PUD: Public Utility District
- RCW: Revised Code of Washington
- SEPA: State Environmental Protection Agency
