As of 06 June 2010 we believe we have made this site, including all documentation, compliant to Triple A level of the World Wide Web Consortium (w3c) web content accessibility guidelines (WCAG) 2.0, except for the fourth requirement of 1.4.8. And we are working on that to try and resolve the issue.
In addition to the international standards within this site we have:
- Corrected the IE6 problem of 'loose anchors', allowing people to navigate the site using the tab key.
- Provided a speech enabling software package called Browsealoud.
- Provided access keys. These have been tested to make sure that they do not interfere with other keyboard shortcuts.
- Made sure that all documents, both Word and PDFs, follow heading conventions to make them navigable by screen readers. In addition all PDFs are fully book marked following the headings structure. Please note, most of the one page forms only have one heading in them, ie the document name.
- Made sure that all our Word documents have no specified text and background colours and that the PDFs have no specified background colours. This allows any colour settings in either your computer properties or your PDF reader preferences to be fully effective. Please note it is only in the completed risk assessment PDFs where there is any specified text colour, the column numbers are in red.
- Provided a white 'inverse' for every coloured horizontal line throughout the site. In all cases the white and coloured lines abut. Therefore if you are viewing the site with light text and dark background, you will still see a line. Please note, with some background colours you will be able to see both the coloured and white lines simultaneously. (We were hoping to allow the table grids in the stats section to pick up the page text colour. However we found that if you do not specify a colour, IE7 and earlier, displays the grid in a very pale colour. We therefore took the reluctant decision to specify the table grid colour. If your specific colour needs mean that you cannot see the table grids, we suggest that you over-ride the specified colour. Instructions on how to do this can be found in the Change page colours section.)
If you find any part of this site does not meet your access needs, or you think we have made an error in applying the international guidelines we want to hear from you. Please contact the Web Administrator, Sheena McCullagh either by email sheena.mccullagh@blueyonder.co.uk or by 'phone 0117 9494468 or 07974 694320 (mobile).
Anything you raise will be treated seriously and we will do our best to correct the issue. We want this site to be 'accessible to all'.
Created: 4 May 2007
Updated: 6 June 2010
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