Aldhous Web Design Accessibility Statement
This page gives an outline of the measures Aldhous Web Design has taken to ensure that the site and it's content are as accessible as possible. If you have any ideas or suggestions about any ways in which we could improve our accessibility please don't hesitate to Contact Us.
Most browsers support jumping to specific links using access keys defined on this web site. On Windows, you can press ALT + an access key; on Macintosh, you can press Control + an access key.
Aldhous Web design Access Keys:
- Home - Access Key 1
- Services - Access Key 2
- Portfolio - Access Key 3
- Tutorials - Access Key 4
- Resources - Access Key 5
- Contact us - Access Key 6
- Accessibility Statement - Access Key 7
- Privacy Statement - Access Key 8
- Site Map - Access Key 9
Every effort has been made to make our forms accessible. You can Tab through the input fields. There are also Access Keys for the relevant text input fields so that you can navigate them more easily. On Windows, you can press ALT + an access key; on Macintosh, you can press Control + an access key.
Aldhous Web design Access Keys:
- First name - Access Key n
- Last name - Access Key l
- Email - Access Key m
- Web URL - Access Key w
- Subject - Access Key j
- Comments - Access Key c
- Phonetic Validation - Access Key x
- Reset Button - Access Key r
- Submit Button - Access Key s
All links on this web site have titles. The main page links have access keys. When links open in a new window or link to a 3rd party web site the text "External Link" appears in the title tag of each link. All links are written to make sense out of context.
Images & Descriptions:
- All images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes.
- Complex images include LONGDESC attributes/ inline descriptions to explain the image to non-visual readers.
Visual Design:
- This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.
- This site uses only relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified "text size" option in visual browsers.
- If your browser or browsing device does not support style sheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.
Accessibility References:
- W3 accessibility guidelines, which explains the reasons behind each guideline.
- W3 accessibility techniques, which explains how to implement each guideline.
- W3 accessibility checklist, a busy developer's guide to accessibility.
- U.S. Federal Government Section 508 accessibility guidelines.
Accessibility Software:
- JAWS, a screen reader for Windows. A time-limited, downloadable demo is available.
- Thunder Reader, a screen reader for Windows. Free download is available.
- Lynx, a free text-only web browser for blind users with refreshable Braille displays.
- Links, a free text-only web browser for visual users with low bandwidth.
- Opera, a visual browser with many accessibility-related features, A free downloadable version is available.
Accessibility Services:
- Bobby, a free service to analyse web pages for compliance to accessibility guidelines.
- HTML Validator, a free service for checking that web pages conform to published HTML standards.
- Web Page Backward Compatibility Viewer, a tool for viewing your web pages without modern browser features.
- Lynx Viewer, a free service for viewing what your web pages would look like in Lynx.
