Accessibility Statement
This website has been designed to be as accessible as possible across a range of browsers, PDAs, web-enabled phones and screen readers. Our aim is to make this site easier to use, not only for people with visual or physical disabilities, but also for able-bodied visitors.
All the pages on this site are WCAG approved and comply with all priority 1, 2 and, in most cases, 3 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Although this is an automated approval system that can fail to identify real-world problems it does go a long way to ensuring that this site is accessible.
Standards compliance
This site is built on valid XHTML 1.0 Strict for structure and CSS for presentation.
It is intended that this website is best viewed using modern browsers such as Firefox, Safari, Opera and IE 6 or above.
Navigation aids
All news pages on this site have rel=home, previous, next and first links to assist navigation in text-only browsers and screen readers. Mozilla users can also take advantage of this feature by selecting the View menu, Show/Hide, Site Navigation Bar, Show Only As Needed (or Show Always). Opera 7 has similar functionality.
Links
Where possible, links are written to make sense out of context. Many of this sites links have title attributes which provide greater detail, unless the text of the link already fully describes the target (such as the headline of an article).
Access keys
Most browsers are able to support access keys. Access keys allow users to browse directly to specified pages. Although this is useful for some users it often conflicts with keyboard shortcuts defined by the browser or operating system. As a result this site does not use access keys.
Further information
To learn more about web accessibility visit the RNIB Web Access Centre.
To obtain a copy of the screen reader JAWS.
