Accessibility Statement

This is the official accessibility statement for the Dowd Mechanical Heating & Air Conditioning website. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, please feel free to fill out our contact form.

Most modern browsers support jumping to specific links within a website through the use of keyboard shortcuts (called access keys) defined by the website. On Windows, you can press ALT + an access key (or ALT + Shift + an access key for Firefox); on Macintosh, you can press Control + Option + an access key.

All pages throughout this website comply with priority 1 guidelines of the W3 Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and the U.S. Federal Government Section 508 Guidelines.

All pages throughout this website validate as XHTML 1 Strict. They are structured using semantic markup. For example, an H1 tag is used for the title of each page, H2 is used for subheadings, H3 for tertiary headings, etc. In particular, this enables JAWS users to skip to the next post using ALT+INSERT+2.

All table cells are explicitly associated with their corresponding header cells to aid screen readers in rendering them in a clear and meaningful way. Where applicable, all tables contain captions and summaries.

All pages have rel=”home” links to aid navigation in text–only browsers.

All pages have a “skip navigation” link to allow text–only browsers and screen readers to skip directly to the content of the document.

Whenever possible, link text is written to make sense out of context to aid browsers (such as JAWS, Home Page Reader, Lynx, and Opera) that allow the user to browse a list of links culled from a page. Many links contain additional descriptive information in the title tag.

There are no links that contain Javascript in their href attributes. All links can be followed by any browser, regardless of whether scripting is turned off. All links that open new windows inform the user within the contents of the title attribute.

All images include descriptive text provided through the alt attribute.