ACCESSIBILITY STATEMENT


The Abingdon Wednesday Club website has been designed with accessibility in mind and has been tested in various ways to meet accessibility standards.

Caution

This web site is hosted on a free ISP (Orange) which inserts, at the top of each page, the 'Orange' logo together with a randomly generated advertisement. This is accomplished by inserting a few lines of JavaScript code. Without these 'extras' all pages on this site comply with W3C CSS and W3C XHTML 1.0 standards.

Access keys

Most browsers support jumping to specific links by typing keys defined on a website. With Windows-based browsers, you should be able to press and hold ALT + the relevant access key, followed by the return key (as listed below). With Macintosh computers, press CONTROL + the access key required.
The following important pages on our site use access keys:
Access key + 1 - Home page
Access key + 2 - This year's programme
Access key + 3 - Next year's programme
Access key + 4 - How to find us
Access key + 0 - Accessibility statement
Access key + 9 - Site map
Access key + S - Skip main navigation

General

All pages on this site comply with all priority 1, 2, and in most cases, 3 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). Please bear in mind that many of these guidelines are intentionally vague and can therefore not really be tested automatically.
All pages on this site aim to validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional, and use CSS 2.1 for visual presentation.
A two column table has been used for each Programme page. The table has a summary which can be interpreted by a 'reader' and each column is provided with a header which is displayed only if stylesheets are unsupported by your browser.
All pages on this site use structured semantic markup. H1 tags are used for main titles, H2 tags for subtitles.
Pages can be navigated and its content read without requiring the use of a mouse.
External web pages may or may not be designed with accessibility in mind. For example, photographic albums may use tables for design layout

Visual design

Cascading styles sheets are used for visual layout
If stylesheets are unsupported by your browser, the content of the pages is still readable
Images used only as part of the overall site design have null ALT attributes

Text size

For those who do use a mouse (with a wheel) text size can be adjusted by holding down the CONTROL key on the keyboard and moving the mouse wheel accordingly
Fonts sizes used are relative

Images

Content images (i.e. those not used for overal site design) used on this site include descriptive ALT attributes

Navigation

In order to make a clear distinction for those using screen readers, all adjacent navigation links are separated by non-links

Links

Where required, links employ title attributes to describe the destination in greater detail
Links are written to still make sense, even out of context
Where the destination of a given link will take the user to a new window, this is clearly indicated for the visually impaired
Adjacent links are always separated by non-link text
For more details about accessibility visit the excellent Dive into Accessibility website.