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)