Accessibility


 

This is the accessibility statement for the Tayburn web site. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to email usat tayburn@tayburn.co.uk

Flash

While the Tayburn website has been largely designed in Flash, in order that the site might be accessible to most users, we have also provided this parallel version of the website in standards-compliant HTML. Though this parallel version is the default version of the Tayburn website, it will only appear if the website does not detect a Flash plugin on your browser.

Important

This accessibility statement is only pertinent in regard to this default, standards-compliant HTML version of the web site and is not relevant if viewing that version of the site designed using Flash technology.



Access keys

The Tayburn web site does not currently support Access keys.

Standards compliance

  1. All pages on this site aspire to compliance with WCAG AA priority 2 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. This is a judgement call; many guidelines are intentionally vague and cannot be tested automatically. Tayburn has reviewed the guidelines and believes all pages are in compliance.
  2. Pages on this site validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional. A program can determine with 100 per cent accuracy whether a document is valid XHTML.
  3. Most pages on this site use Valid CSS. A program can determine with 100 per cent accuracy whether a stylesheet is valid CSS.
  4. All pages on this site use structured semantic markup. H1 tags are used for main titles, H2 tags for subtitles and so on. For example, on this page, JAWS users can skip to the next section within the accessibility statement by pressing ALT+INSERT+3.

 

Browser text-sizing tool

Most popular browsers feature a text resizing tool in the toolbar.

With this tool you can resize text on screen to a level you feel comfortable with. Just click on the icon, and select a new size.

This tool is also available in the menu of various browsers as follows:

  • Internet Explorer 5, 5.5, 6, 7 (PC): View > Text Size
  • Firefox, Netscape 8: View > Text Size
  • Opera: View > Zoom
  • Netscape 6, 7, Mozilla: View > Text Zoom
  • Safari (Mac): View > Make Text Bigger
  • Internet Explorer 5 (Mac): View > Text Zoom

 

 

 

 

Tab key

You can also use the Tab key on your keyboard to move between links on a page. A single press of Tab high-lights the next link, Shift+Tab high-lights the previous link.

 

Links

  1. Links are written to make sense out of context

 

 

Images

  1. All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics include null ALT attributes.

 

 

Visual design

  1. This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout
  2. This site uses only relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified "text size" option in visual browsers
  3. If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets, the content of each page is still readable

 

 

Accessibility references

  1. W3 accessibility guidelines explains the reasons behind each guideline
  2. W3 accessibility techniques explains how to implement each guideline
  3. W3 accessibility checklist a busy developer's guide to accessibility

 

 

 

Accessibility software

  1. JAWS is a screen reader for Windows. A time-limited, downloadable demo is available
  2. Home Page Reader is a screen reader for Windows. A downloadable demo is available
  3. Lynx is a free text-only web browser for blind users with refreshable Braille displays
  4. Links is a free text-only web browser for visual users with low bandwidth
  5. Opera is a visual browser with many accessibility-related features, including text zooming, user stylesheets and image toggle. A free downloadable version is available. It is compatible with Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and several other operating systems.

 

 

 

 

Accessibility services

  1. HTML Validator is a free service for checking web pages conform to published HTML standards
  2. Web Page Backward Compatibility Viewer is a tool for viewing your web pages without a variety of modern browser features
  3. Lynx Viewer is a free service for viewing what your web pages would look like in Lynx