Website Accessibility

Last revision: 10th June 2008

Browser text-size adjustments

The text on this web site has been designed to allow you to use browser controls to resize it to whatever size works best for you.

Firefox (Windows & Mac):

The control and the plus key together increases the font size. Control minus decreases the font size.

Internet Explorer (Windows):

From the menu bar select View > Text Size, and choose a suitable text size.

Netscape and Mozilla (Windows):

From the menu bar select View > Text Zoom, and choose a suitable text size.

Opera (Windows):

From the menu bar select View > Zoom, and choose a suitable page magnification.

Safari (Mac):

From the menu bar select View > Make Text Bigger, and increase to a suitable text size.

Internet Explorer (Mac):

From the menu bar select View > Text Size, and choose a suitable text size.

Netscape & Mozilla (Mac):

From the menu bar select View > Text Zoom, and choose a suitable text size.

Opera (Mac) users:

From the menu bar select View > Zoom, and choose a suitable page magnification.

The site is viewable up to 300% with little degradation.

Standards compliance

All pages on this site are Bobby AA approved, complying with the Bobby guidelines. This is always a judgment call; many accessibility features can be measured, but many can not. we have reviewed all the guidelines and believe that all these pages are in full compliance.

All pages on this site is WCAG AA approved, complying with all priority 1 and 2 guidelines and most of priority 3 of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Again, a judgment call; many guidelines are intentionally vague and can not be tested automatically.

We have reviewed all the guidelines and believe that these pages are in full compliance with one exception. The need for an advanced search mechanism. Due to the relatively small size of this site I do not believe it to increase the sites accessibility or usability.

All pages on this site are Section 508 approved, complying with the U.S. Federal Government Section 508 Guidelines. Again, a judgment call.

All pages on this site validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional This is not a judgment call; a program can determine with 100% accuracy whether a page is valid XHTML. For example, check this page for XHTML validity.

All pages on this site use structured semantic markup. The first heading (h1) is the company name and tag line the second the content title (default centre column) and subsequent headings h2 to h6 are used in the correct order for sub-headings.