accessibility

Our website is built to AA Bobby accessibility requirements.  AA accessibility provides the following:

Content production/coding

• Provides alternative ways of viewing your content
• Ensures that all text can be resized
• Ensures pages are usable with scripts/applets turned off
• Ensures pages are readable with style-sheets turned off
• Provides HTML alternatives to non-text content (flash etc.)
• Ensures equivalents for dynamic content are updated when dynamic content is updated

Tables:

• For data tables, it identifies row and column headers
• For data tables with >1 logical level of row or column headers, it uses markup to associate data cells and header cells
• Ensures that text of more than two lines is left aligned
• Ensures that pages have a logical tab order through all screen elements
• Adheres WAI Level AA Standards & Guidelines
• Uses validated HTML

Design

• It is readable with style-sheets/scripts turned off and text & background colours changed
• Provides HTML alternatives to non-text content (Flash etc.)
• Uses pictures and symbols in addition to text / Present information in multiple ways

Colour:

• Ensures all information conveyed with colour is available without colour, or from context/markup
• Ensures that there is sufficient contrast between text and background colours
• Whenever possible, use a plain solid background

Structure/layout:

• Provides consistent navigation
• Clearly defines the different sections of the page & ensure consistent location of screen objects
• Ensures that pages have a logical tab order through all screen elements
• Ensures page layout supports enlarging of text
• Avoids putting “too much" on the page
• Uses scrolling pages, not multiple pages
• Has suitable space around links / Ensure that links are large enough to select easily
• Has tables that are appropriately designed and used for presenting data only
• An appropriate typeface

Moving images:

• Does not use blinking or moving text/images
• Ensures time-outs are appropriate
• Avoids scrolling text boxes (in forms)