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Accessibility guidelines

Our Aims & Practices

St.Antony's Leweston strives to make the information it publishes accessible to everyone, including those with limited capability. These limitations could take the form of either disabilities [physical or mental], or technological.

We are always working to improve our accessibility policy. We aim to comply with the guidelines set by WAI. So if you believe St.Antony's can improve its performance in this area, please contact us with your suggestions.

As such, this website has been designed to cater for the average user and for those audience members who fall into these two categories. An example of a physical disability is visual impairment, for which we have built the website to work with 'screen reader' browsers.

An example of a technological limitation is a user who has an older computer without a high-speed Internet connection, and to cater for this the website has been designed to load the page as quickly as possible.

Below you will find specific tips for using this website which may help those with limited capabilities.

Keyboard Navigation

Navigating around the site is possible without the mouse. The following keyboard commands are active across the site, in both HTML and Flash elements of the site:

• TAB - to cycle forwards through links.
• SHIFT + TAB - to cycle backwards though links.
• ENTER - to select a highlighted link.

The ordering of the tabbable items has been specified, which allows a natural progression through links and form fields in the site.

Font Size Flexability

The size of body text on our site can be determined by the user. There are two ways to do this:

• In Internet Explorer
  Select the View menu, then Text Size, then a setting from the list of five sizes.
• In FireFox
  Select the View menu, then Text Size, then either Increase or Decrease from the menu list.
• In Safari
  Select the View menu, then either Make Text Bigger or Make Text Smaller.
• In all browsers
  Holding down the CTRL button and scrolling the mouse-wheel up and down will adjust text size accordingly

Images

Every image throughout the site has been tagged with an ALT attribute. ALT allows alternative description to be given for each image. This allows both screen readers and browsers which don't display images to represent a substitute description.

W3C Compliance

www.leweston.co.uk validates as compliant XHTML and CSS with the W3C.