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tranquilvillas.net has been designed to be accessible to all users, irrespective of browser type, speed of connection or physical ability.
Pages on this site are built to meet conformance level Triple-A of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (WCAG).
You can find out more about these guidelines by following the W3C-WCAG logo link below.
Conformance to these guidelines will help make the Web more accessible to users with disabilities and will benefit all users.
Resizing Text
All text on this site has a relative font size, so text can be enlarged or reduced using the text size options available in visual browsers.
To change the size of the text in Internet Explorer go to
View > Text Size
To change the size of the text in Netscape Navigator go to
Edit > Preferences > Appearance > Fonts
To change the size of the text in Opera go to
File > Preferences > Fonts > Minimum font size
Alternatively, if you have a mouse with a wheel, hold down the CTRL key on your keyboard whilst moving the wheel backwards, to increase the text size, or forwards, to reduce the text size.
Accesskeys
Accesskeys are keyboard shortcuts which allow users to navigate around a website without having to use a mouse or similar device.
To use these accesskey shortcuts, Windows users should press the 'alt' key together with the relevant number below, then 'enter'. Macintosh users should press the 'Ctrl' key together with the accesskey, then 'enter'.
This website uses the recommended UK Government accesskeys where they are relevant:
s Skip navigation
1 Home page
0 Help (Accessibility features including accesskey
details)
t Back to top of Page
In addition, the other main sections of the site have the following accesskeys:
2 Villas
3 Hotels
4 Appartments
5 Winter Breaks
6 Links
7 About Us
8 Privacy Policy
9 Legal Statement
Please note that accesskeys will not work on older browsers which do not support the W3C HTML 4.0 standards.
Tab Index
It is also possible to use the 'tab' key (together with 'enter') to navigate this site.
tranquilvillas.net has a logical tab order through links, etc., determined as follows:
- Skip Navigation
- Home page
- Main Navigation
- Help
- Privacy Policy
- Legal Statement
- Web standards validators
- Design credit
- Breadcrumbs
- Page content
- Back to top
Visual design
This site uses Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for visual layout.
Images
All content images used in this site include descriptive alt attributes.
Links
All links to external sites on tranquilvillas.net will open in the same browser window.
Links have title attributes which describe the link in greater detail, unless the text of the link already fully describes the target.
W3C Web Standards
An integral requirement of conforming to the W3C Accessibility Guidelines is that the design and coding of all web pages adheres to the W3C Web Standards.
By designing to Web Standards, the informational content of web pages becomes accessible to many more people, irrespective of their physical ability or the internet browsing device that they may be using.
The following W3C reference links lay down the content mark-up and styling standards that Tranquil Villas has adopted, and that the web as a whole is moving towards:
XHTML:
CSS:
What are Web Standards?
Web page content is coded, or marked-up, using HTML (HyperText Markup Language). This HTML mark-up defines, for example, which parts of the content are headings, where the paragraph or line-breaks should go, which parts are clickable links, etc. Traditionally, it has also specified how this content should look, by specifying properties such as font size and colour for the different parts of the page, background colours, etc.
By adopting W3C Web Standards, we break from this tradition and use only semantic HTML mark-up. In fact, we use XHTML (i.e. eXtensible HTML), which is just HTML coded to a stricter standard.
Semantic XHTML means that the mark-up only defines what each part of the content is, not how it should look. That is, the mark-up identifies which elements in the content are headings, paragraphs, links, list items, etc. It does not specify what these elements should look like, nor how and where they will be positioned on the page.
Even on older browsers or text-only devices that may not react to modern CSS stylesheets, the content is still fully readable and usable. It may not have the same colourful backgrounds and graphics, etc., but it will be fully usable none the less. This is the fundamental principle behind the use of Web Standards.