Derian House Childrens Hospice
ACCESSIBILITY
This site has been written so that you can adjust the settings to suit your requirements making the site accessible to all users.
Adjusting the size of the text
The size of the text throughout the site can easily be increased or decreased within your browser. Instructions on how to do so are set out below:
Changing the size of text in Mozilla:
- Select View -> Text Size
- Select Increase Font or Decrease Font to change the text size accordingly.
Changing the size of text in Internet Explorer:
- Select View -> Text Size
- Select one of the predefined sizes ranging from largest to smallest.
Alternatively, on most PC's, you can adjust your text size by holding down the Ctrl key and using your mouse scroll wheel to increase or decrease the text size.
Accessibility tests
the accessibility and validation tests for this site have been carried out on Total Validator
No Access Keys?
Based upon papers from Nomensa, recognised Web Accessibility experts, we have decided not to provide Access keys on this website.
A quote from them: "Access keys are not used by the people who are supposed to use them, and could even hinder people if poorly implemented. The time would be better spent on a technique that is known to work, such as skip links.
Although access keys are intended to improve site navigation, it is shown they actually can interfere with web accessibility. In terms of implementing a common standard, it would require a universal understanding of access keys to be applied to every site."
You can read the full article here.
Accessibility Standards
This site has been written to comply with the following W3C web standards: xhtml 1.0, CSS 2 and WIAC AA
