PennyAids Ltd Accessibility Statement
What is 'accessibility' and why is it important?
Accessibility is about making your website available and understandable for everyone, including users with disabilities. W3C explains it in a great way at the Web Accessibility Initiative.
All visitors to our site are important and we realize that there is a tremendous diversity in individual abilities of users within the online community and a wide range of communication methods and technologies. So we are making every effort to be as inclusive as possible and make this website easy to read and navigate and to be accessible to everybody.
Navigation and Links
- Many links have title attributes which describe the link in greater detail, unless the text of the link already fully describes the target (such as the headline of an article).
- Links are written to make sense out of context.
For users who don't use a mouse ( or other pointing devices ) this website offers the following options:
- Using the tab key to scroll through the links and then pressing the Enter key to select the desired page.
- keyboard access keys have been assigned to our main navigation using the UK government recommended access key system
functionality depends on the type of operating system you are using, the attribute is only supported by MS Internet Explorer 4 and above, Firefox, and by Netscape 6x versions
- Internet Explorer Windows - Press Alt + Access Key then Enter
- Internet Explorer Macintosh - Press Ctrl + Access Key
- Firefox - Press Alt + Access Key
Keyboard Access Keys:
The following UK government recommended access keys are used on the site:
S - Skip navigation
1 - Home page
2 - Not Used
3 - Site Map
4 - Not Used
5 - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
6 - Not Used
7 - Not Used
8 - Terms and conditions
9 - Not Used
0 - Access key details
We have also provided a site map to help make finding your way around easier.
Images
- All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes.
- Decorative graphics include null ALT attributes.
- All images are optimised for fast download times and modem browsing.
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 some browsers.
- If your browser does not support cascading style sheets, the content of each page is still readable.
Standards compliance
- All pages on this site validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional . For example, check this page for XHTML validity.
- All pages on this site validate as well formed CSS . For example, check the site for CSS validity.
- Most pages/areas conform to the WCAGAA priority 1 rules of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, although our work to attain full AA status is ongoing.(We have reviewed all the guidelines and believe that all pages are in compliance, although many guidelines are extreamly vague and can not be tested automatically.
We hope that our efforts have ensured that you can access our services through whichever browser or assisted technology you are using.
We are constantly striving to improve our online services and would therefore welcome any comments and suggestions you may have. if you have any problems accessing the information on this website please inform us along with the browser and any assisted technologies (stating the versions) you are using.
Contact us at webmaster@pennyaids.co.uk
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