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The Ventura Gem & Mineral Society, Inc. (VGMS)
Site Diagram.
VGMS has Real Accessibility at Last (Updated 01-23-2006).
This site has been updated in order to make it Accessible. (If you don't understand what Accessibility means for web sites then the whole process should have little effect on you anyway.) The goal was to make MOST pages Accessible. The old Text Only Section of the site has been eliminated. Most of the rest of the site should now be accessible. Now I will resume work on placing the individual Bulletins into the Archive section of the site. This, too, is a bunch of boring work.
In the paragraph above I said that MOST of the pages have been made Accessible. The exceptions are pages designed only to be printed (applications of some kind mostly). These are contained in the "applications" folder and that name will appear in the URL (address) line of your browser when you go to one of them. These pages are there to be printed and filled out. The pages should be readable by anyone but they aren't totally Accessible based on anyone's guidelines.
As I explained earlier, I did not attempt to fix anything that was not broken. As long as it's valid HTML and CSS code and accessible, really accessible, it remained the same even if it doesn't follow anyone's accessibility guideline.
Some of the pages may look a little weird to those of you who have no difficulties with normal web pages. One of MY guidelines is to place some kind of punctuation in places where it would not normally be used such as at the end of headings and after each item in a list. The purpose of this is to aid at least one of the text readers (maybe all of them) to read these items in a normal "people-type" manner instead of running them all together like one long sentence.
Another of MY guidelines involves any punctution which immediately follows a link. I include that punctuation within the display of the link itself. If the punctuation is separate, that one text reader at least, attempts to pronounce it as a separate word. MY guideline makes the link look improper but, hopefully, I won't let the punctuation sneak into the actual link which you don't normally see. (If you copy the link instead of clicking be sure to delete the punctuation.)
While these things may look a little weird, improper even, to a person actually seeing the page, at least it doesn't hurt anything. It may, however, aid someone else who has to "see" the page by using a text reader. On the other hand I will continue to use the cutesy menu on your left. It has buttons that change when you run your mouse cursor over them and again if you click on them. Strictly speaking that is not accessible. However, they still work as links and they have the required ALT tags which describe what they are even without the images. They work just as well with images or without images. Therefore they are "really accessible". They meet MY guidelines. I suppose this site will never be able to legally display anyone's accessibility logo but I won't lose any sleep over that. NOTE: I think often about those cutesy things and, some day, they may disappear. Unexpected movement can mess up some people.
PLEASE REMEMBER: All documents in the "applications" Folder are designed only to be printed. Because of this, these documents are not necessarily completely Accessible. These documents will have "/applications/" in their address line in your web browser.
On the other hand, if you notice anything that is not really accessible please let me know. The e-mail is probably the best way to do this. It's on our contact page which is available from all main pages of this site including this one. Please use "VGMS" in the subject line. It's easier to separate from all the spam that way.
Webmaster's Secret.
I use the browser's BACK button (or equivalent) extensively to keep from getting too lost on (or too deep into) a site. This allows your browser to keep track of the route back to where you entered the site so you don't have to remember. You can then go to different areas in a site and still be able to get back to the same beginning point if you want to. Microsoft's gigantic thing is a good example of the type of site where this comes in handy. Of course, I think this site is well laid out but then I may be somewhat prejudiced. If you feel the need, please use your browser's BACK button any time you desire. Just don't go back too far and leave us. If that should happen use FORWARD (or equivalent) to come back to us!!
The VGMS Site Diagram.
The Ventura Gem & Mineral Society, Inc. (VGMS) Entertainment and Information Web Site - The HOME Page;
The Ventura Gem & Mineral Society (VGMS) Show Page - Contains information about our upcoming or past shows,
The Ventura Gem & Mineral Society (VGMS) Rockhound Rambling Center - From this page you can access the individual Rockhound Rambling Bulletins;
The Ventura Gem & Mineral Society (VGMS) Information Center - Information about the VGMS;
The Ventura Gem & Mineral Society (VGMS) Site Search - Allows you to search the site for information and activities of the club or people in the club;
The Ventura Gem & Mineral Society, Inc. (VGMS) Archive Center - Information taken from past issues of the Rockhound Rambling Bulletin (includes a search of the archive area);
The Ventura Gem & Mineral Society (VGMS) Site Diagram - This Page.
The Ventura Gem & Mineral Society, Inc. (VGMS) How To Contact Us Page - This page is available from all of the Main Pages on the site just like in the next section on this page.
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Webmaster: James A. Layton,
Last Updated: 05-11-2006,
URL of this Page: http://www.vgms.org/diagram.shtm.
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