Accessibility

Found An Error?

This site is designed to be as access­ible and as usable as pos­sible so if you find some­thing to be astray then please con­tact me.

Col­our Blindness

Col­our blind­ness affects about 1 in 20 people (5%) which makes it import­ant for a web­site to check their col­our schemes and images to ensure that every­one can see them with at least some clar­ity. This site has been checked using an online col­ourblind web page fil­ter and showed no flaws for any disorder.

Text Size

The size of the text on this web­site can be eas­ily increased or decreased without dis­rupt­ing the design. If you are using Inter­net Explorer, Fire­fox, Safari or Opera and have a mouse with a scroll wheel simply hold down the Ctrl key on your key­board while scrolling up or down to increase/decrease the text size. Altern­at­ively, select View then Text Size from your menu and select the size option you prefer from Smal­lest to Largest.

Where pos­sible, images and other non-text objects will also be scalable.

Nav­ig­a­tion Without A Mouse

This site has been equipped with some basic access keys and with a lin­ear tab order thus mak­ing nav­ig­a­tion via a keyboard/mobile phone so much easier.

Access Keys

  • 1 — home page
  • 2 — skip to content
  • 3 — skip to sidebar/navigation
  • 9 — contact
  • 0 — access­ib­il­ity (this page)

Inter­net Explorer

PC

Hold down the ALT key, press the num­ber of the access key, release both keys then press ENTER.

Mac

Hold down the CTRL key and press the num­ber of the access key.

Firefox/Mozilla

PC

Hold down the SHIFT and ALT keys and press the num­ber of the access key.

Mac

Hold down the CTRL key and press the num­ber of the access key.

Opera

Hold down the Shift key and press Escape, release both keys, then press the num­ber of the access key.

Safari/Omniweb

PC

Hold down the Alt key and press the num­ber of the access key.

Mac

Hold down the CTRL key and press the num­ber of the access key.

Skip Links

Users using screen read­ers, mobile/cell phones or without a mouse may find Skip To links very use­ful. The Skip To links lit­er­ally skip to whatever they cor­res­pond to. The Skip To links are the very first links and text on every page. Simply click them and you will avoid all the repet­it­ive text/images that exist on every page, for fully-sighted com­puter users, and you’ll be taken you straight to the con­tent you want.

Web Stand­ards

I per­son­ally feel that W3C stand­ards are very import­ant and so I have tried to adhere to them as much as pos­sible on this web­site. This includes:

  • XHTML 1.0 Strict
  • CSS 2.0
  • Sec­tion 508

Strenu­ous test­ing has been made in vari­ous browsers, ver­sions and plat­forms. Some­what obvi­ously, the only browser that had any prob­lem was Inter­net Explorer. If you have Inter­net Explorer, I really recom­mend that you upgrade to Fire­fox, Opera or another standards-compliant browser.

If your browser has trouble inter­pret­ing any pages, please con­tact me and let me know.

Print­ing

Although not strictly an access­ib­il­ity issue I feel I must point out to people that this site util­ises CSS print­able stylesheets; mean­ing what you see on the screen isn’t what you see in Print Preview.