Accessibility and site help
Wideaware is committed to making this web site as accessible as possible for users with disabilities. We welcome any feedback, positive or negative, you may have on the web site as we seek to improve it. Please email your comments to feedback@wideaware.co.uk
Accessibility Features
- User control of font sizes – adjust the text size with the ‘View’ options of your browser or by pressing the ‘Ctrl’ and ‘+’ or ‘-‘ keys
together. - Each page uses a hierarchy of headers to help convey structure
- Images that convey important information have alternative text descriptions. Images used for purely decorative purposes have a blank alt text description.
- Tonal contrast between text and backgrounds is high
- Pages are legible by most screen readers. Visual design of the site is achieved through the use of the style sheets. If style sheets. are disabled the site can be navigated and read.
- Site map is available providing an index of the entire site
Access Keys
This web site has not set access keys due to the potential for making the site less accessible to users who have their own access keys configured or who use an assistive technology which uses access keys. For more details on this problem visit http://www.dmag.org.uk/resources/design_articles/accesskeys.asp