Accessibility Guidelines

What has been used?

In making this website as accessible as possible use has been made of access keys, text links and relative sizing.

This is in addition to making the site confrom to level AA of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (priority 1 and 2 guidelines), as well as being fully W3C XHTML 1.1 & CSS2 compliant. If you believe there are any reasons why this site is not compatible, please contact me to let me know.

What are they?

Access keys: Quick links built into most web browsers (notable exception of Netscape Navigator) - by using the Alt key (Windows) or Ctrl key (Macintosh) and the link access key followed by enter, you can jump to a page from anywhere on the website. For example Alt+0 (zero) will bring you back to this page

Text links: This means using text for the main menu links rather than images and rollover effects

Relative sizing: All text on this site is relative, it is not 12pts or 10pts it is bigger than normal, normal or smaller than normal

How do these help?

Access keys: These mean that you can jump to any page on the site quickly and easily.

Using Alt (or Ctrl) and 0 = Accessibility Help
Using Alt (or Ctrl) and 1 = Home Page
Using Alt (or Ctrl) and 9 = Contact Us

Text links: By using text links rather than images, they are easier to read, can be read by text readers and also resize with the relative text sizing.

Relative sizing: This means that if you want to resize the text to make it easier to read, then you can.

Using Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox: Hold down ctrl whilst scrolling the mouse wheel to change the size of the text.
Using Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox: Select the view menu at the top of the screen and highlight 'text size' from the drop down menu.
Using Netscape Navigator click on the view menu and then highlight 'zoom'.

More information

If there are any ideas that you have about making this website more accessible, please let me know.

If you want more information, please visit the W3C website.