Accessibility
We have tried to design this site to be as accessible as possible to everyone who visits it. Here are some of the features that will hopefully make the site usable and accessible for everyone.
Standards compliance
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This site complies with all priority 1, 2, and 3 guidelines of the W3 Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, and is Bobby AAA approved. It has also been tested by the automated accessibility tester at Cynthia Says. LIFT - NN/g edition was used during the building of this site to verify its accessibility features.
The code used to create the site validates as HTML 4 Transitional, and the CSS has also been validated.
The pages use structured semantic markup where necessary. JAWS users should be able to skip through the header hierarchy by using ALT+INSERT+2, ALT+INSERT+3 and so on.
Access keys
Most modern browsers support jumping to specific links by typing an 'access key'. On Windows, you do this by pressing ALT + the access key; on Macintosh, you press Control + the access key.
The following access keys are used on this site:
- Access key 1 - Home page
- Access key S - Skip navigation
- Access key 3 - Site Map
- Access key 9 - Contact Information
- Access key 0 - Accessibility features (this page)
Links
Many links have title attributes which describe the link in greater detail, unless the text of the link already fully describes the target.
Wherever possible, links are written to make sense out of context. Many browsers (such as JAWS, Home Page Reader, Lynx, and Opera) can extract the list of links on a page and allow the user to browse the list separately from the page.
Link text is never duplicated; two links with the same link text always point to the same address.
Occasionally, links on the site will open in a new browser window (when the link target is another site outside Greensleeves Films). However, links on the site will never open a new browser window without a warning in the 'title' attribute of the link or in the link text itself.
Help with navigation
The structure of the site is extremely simple and I hope that users will be able to find their way around the various sections easily. Nevertheless, there is a simple site map which can be used to access any part of the site directly.
Images
Images on the site have been made as accessible as possible by including descriptive ALT attributes. Decorative or functional graphics include null ALT attributes.
Visual design
The site uses a cascading style sheet for visual layout. No tables are used for layout anywhere on this site.
The stylesheet uses relative font sizes and is written to display pages correctly in most commonly-used modern browsers (except Netscape 4).
In Netscape 4, earlier browsers, or browsing devices that do not support stylesheets at all, the content of every page is still readable and makes linear sense.
Text sizing
All the text on this site can be made larger or smaller to suit your needs. This is how to change the size of the text in the most common browsers:
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.5 and 6.0
- Choose the drop down menu at the top of the window of the browser marked 'view'
- A list of options will appear in the drop down menu, choose 'text size'
- Next another drop down menu should appear with options including 'small', 'medium', 'large', 'largest'
- Select 'largest'
- Netscape 6.2, 7.0 and 8.1
- Hold down the Ctrl button on your keyboard and press the plus (+) key
- You will find that this will enlarge the text, to enlarge again repeat the procedure
- Keep repeating until the text is enlarged to your requirements
- If you need to make the text smaller press ctrl on your keyboard and the minus ( - ) key
- Mozilla Firefox 1.5
- Hold down the Ctrl button on your keyboard and press the plus (+) key
- You will find that this will enlarge the text, to enlarge again repeat the procedure
- Keep repeating until the text is enlarged to your requirements
- If you need to make the text smaller press ctrl on your keyboard and the minus ( - ) key
- Apple Safari 1.2 and 2.0
- Hold down the Apple Key and press the (+) key
- You will find that this will enlarge the text, to enlarge again repeat the procedure
- Keep repeating until the text is enlarged to your requirements
- If you need to make the text smaller press the Apple Key on your keyboard and press the (-) key
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.
- I am indebted to the excellent accessibility resource created by Mark Pilgrim at the Dive Into Accessibility project.
Accessibility software and 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 a variety of modern browser features.
- JAWS, a screen reader for Windows. A time-limited demo is available.
- Lynx, a free text-only web browser.
Feedback
We hope that this site is accessible and usable to everyone who visits it. If you have had difficulty in any aspect of the user experience, or if you have any comments, suggestions or complaints about the site's accessibility, please send feedback to mail@wayouteast.co.uk. We will be happy to incorporate improvements to the site as a result of these suggestions.