Website Accessibility
The Day and Nightcare Assistance website has been designed with accessibility issues in mind and has been tested in various ways to meet accessibility standards.
General
- All pages on this site comply with all priority 1, 2, and in most cases, 3 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). Please bear in mind that many of these guidelines are intentionally vague and can therefore not really be tested automatically.
- All pages on this site aim to validate as HTML 4.01 Strict, and use CSS for visual presentation. Use of tables for non-tabular information is kept to a minimum.
- All pages on this site use structured semantic markup.
h1tags are used for main titles,h2tags for subtitles. - Pages can be navigated and its content read without requiring the use of a mouse.
Visual design
- Cascading styles sheets are used for visual layout.
- If stylesheets are unsupported by your browser, the content of the pages is still readable.
- Images used only as part of the overall site design have null
altattributes.
Text size
- For those who do use a mouse (with a wheel) text size can be adjusted by holding down the ctrl key on the keyboard and moving the mouse wheel accordingly.
Images
- Content images (that is those not used for overall site design) used on this site include descriptive
altattributes.
Navigation
- In order to make a clear distinction for those using screen readers, all adjacent navigation links are separated by non-links.
Links
- Where required, links employ title attributes to describe the destination in greater detail.
- Links are written to still make sense, even out of context.
- Where the destination of a given link will take the user to a new window, this is clearly indicated for the visually impaired.
- Adjacent links are always separated by non-link text.
Forms
- All of the
inputelements in the forms on this site are marked up withlabeltags.
Credits
For more details about accessibility visit the excellent Dive into Accessibility website.
