Accessibility Statement

On accessibility

This site, has gone through a great care on usability, accessibility as well as design aspect. To sum it up, it's a result of my 2 plus years diligent learning, reading and practicing on building accessible websites; the design, and the whole philosophy behinds it, is all about "down to earth" and that, reflects on my service and my sincerity on trying to build better sites for my clients.

Goodbye access keys. Hello common sense & tab features.

WCAG means well, but good intention doesn't always yield the best results. Often time, common sense transcends a rigid guideline; thus a good judgment on common sense making it a better practice for users. So goodbye access keys, for your very nature of tendency to interfere with normal operation on keyboards.

You should be able to navigate this site comfortably using the tab key on your keyboard. Logical tab order is taken into account to prevent confusion; :active and :focus pseudo classes are used so that links and form items are highlighted when they are 'tabbed to'.

Good browsers support. Good CSS practice.

This site looks pretty on Firefox, Opera, Safari, IE 6 & 7 and appears decent in IE 5/ 5.5.

This site looks elastically sexy in Firefox and Safari: increase text size, the layout expands; decrease text size, it shrinks.

This site, although sexy and pretty, does come with a 'brain'. When it shrinks, it knows how not to let its texts and images overlap or stumble on each others like those CSS beauty pageants. When it expands, its left or right column doesn't fall down, instead, it 'grows' elegantly, along with its images.

Lastly, this site, practices semantical and structural markup.

A confession on color contrast

This site, works hard on keeping its appearance, pursues harmony and balance on colors. People with color deficits may find the background colors and texts lack sufficient contrast, should this be the case, I apologize and suggest you increase text size or disable images and styles.

Claim on WCAG conformance

Most pages on this site scored Triple-A, however it's prudent to claim

instead for the site will grow eventually, and closest attention may not be able to attain when more dynamic content are added.

Not the Sophie's Choice

Why I choose Magento eCommerce platform, Modx CMS, TextPattern for my web design service choice?

I am fond of Web Standards and Open Source application; Magento, Modx and Text pattern have the solid support for the web standards and able to generate clean code with its ease of use for the end-users.

These CMS allow me to built engaging, usable and accessible sites that are cost effective for my clients. They are free open source framework however, please be fully aware that all open source application are the thousands hours labor works from many dedicated developers, therefor, you are always be encouraged to make a donation to their good cause and for your own karma . As for me, I promise I will put aside a percentage of the profit of each project to the CMS I use - it maybe a direct donation or subscription to the paid technical support.

Although the Magento, Modx and Textpattern are my favorite children, it's not to say I am not able to dive in to other realm of the CMS such as EE, Etomite and WP et cetera. If you want to hire me and have a strong preference to use other CMS, drop me a line, depend on how intriguing the project be, I maybe willing to go through another learning curve at no extra cost on your part.

On choice of using imperfect content writing

As you can tell, English is not a language that lives under my skin. Living in a country that is English monopolized is tough enough, using the English to try finding web design clients who are English-centric is even tougher - here is the reality, some people judge my ability on how I speak and how I write using their language.

Giving one a false impression is worse than showing the weakness nakedly; what good will it do to present a flawless English content on this site that lacks my personality, and lacks the very essence of who I am when it comes to business of writing and talking in English?

So I have given a long and hard thought whether to seek a professional help with the English content on this site, and here the conclusion...if perfection on grammar is needed on this site, that will have to come from within, from me, and with practise, one step at a time, and recognizing the errors I make, only then, I can improve.

So, before that happens, please bear with my English.

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