Accessibility Statement

Welcome to the accessibility statement for MTW Solutions. This page covers the accessibility and standards compliance measures taken by MTW Solutions, as well as guidelines on how to take advantage of those features. We have made every reasonable attempt to make the content on this website as accessible as possible to all disabled persons.

Enhanced Navigation Aids in the Metadata

Every page has several navigation aids built into the code to enable those with screen readers and other assistive technologies to quickly navigate the content.

The metadata of each page contains links to the following areas of the website: the homepage, the contact page, and the site map. Screen readers will display these links first when loading a page, while users of traditional browsers can use these links by configuring their browser to employ them. Currently, the following browsers support navigation aids.

  • Opera. In Opera, click View > Toolbars > Navigation Bar to enable the navigation aids at the top of the screen. (Opera also allows users to move these toolbars to different sections of the browser window.)
  • Mozilla. In Mozilla, click View > Show/Hide > Site Navigation Bar.
  • Firefox. Firefox does not natively support navigation aids, but you can use the extension Site Navigation Bar to have Firefox automatically display these links when they are present.

Font Sizes

This website uses relative font sizes, which means they can be easily resized by browsers if you find the type difficult to read.

  • Internet Explorer. Choose View > Text Size > Larger (Medium is the default).
  • Firefox. Press Ctrl++ to increase the font size, or Ctrl+- to decrease the font size. (Or navigate to View > Text Size and choose to increase or decrease the size.)
  • Opera. This browser actually scales the entire page, not just the font size, which makes it very good for visually disabled users who want to magnify images as well. Select View > Zoom and then a percentage by which to increase the page.
  • Safari. Press Ctrl++ to increase the font size, or Ctrl+- to decrease the font size. (Or navigate to View and choose to increase or decrease the size.)

Standards Compliance

The accessibility of the MTW Solutions website is helped by its adherence to web standards and general best practices in development, including:

  • Using tables for tabular data only
  • Ensuring forms use proper markup for maximum accessibility
  • Headers are logically ordered

In addition, all pages attempt to validate to a HTML5 doctype, all CSS files validate to the W3C’s specifications, and that all pages meet the majority of accessibility requirements set forth in WCAG 1.0 and specifically in Section 508.

Accessibility Barriers

Despite best efforts, there remain accessibility barriers within this website. It is known that not all pages validate perfectly; if you find a specific problem, please contact us. In addition, the visual formatting of these pages is known to be substantially broken in old browsers like Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer 5 and below, and others. If you are using a browser from the 1990s, please upgrade. Recommended options: