Accessibility Statement
This is the official accessibility statement for ousasouthend.org.uk. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to email us at accessibility@ousasouthend.org.uk
“The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by
everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.”
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Standards compliance:
All pages on this site are:
Bobby AAA approved, complying with all the Bobby guidelines.
WCAG AAA approved, complying with all priority 1, 2, and 3 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
Section 508 approved, complying with all of the U.S. Federal Government Section 508 Guidelines.
Cynthia AAA & Section 508 approved.
WebXACT AAA & Section 508 approved.
This is always a judgement call; many accessibility features can be measured, but many cannot. We have reviewed all the guidelines and believe that all these pages are compliant.
All pages on this site validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict. This is not a judgement call; a program can determine with 100% accuracy whether a page is valid XHTML. For example, check the home page for XHTML validity.
All pages on this site use structured semantic markup. H2 tags are used for main titles, H3 tags for subtitles. For example, on this page, JAWS users can skip to the next section within the accessibility statement by pressing ALT+INSERT+3
Navigation aids:
All pages have rel=section, help, site map, and home links to aid navigation in text-only browsers. Netscape 6 and 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).
Linked text will change colour and the underline disappears when it is in focus, thus aiding you with co-ordination between mouse and mouse pointer and keyboard users can see which item is currently in focus, this can aid navigation for people with eye sight problems.
We have decided not to use tab index as links are coded in a logical tabbing order. We have also decided not to use access keys because of the conflict they can cause with other software programs.
We have provided a 'Skip' link, this can be seen by tabbing through the links or read by screen readers, it is not visible all the time. It gives you the option to skip to the main content of the page or to the global navigation; it is available on every page within this site.
We have expanded on acronym's and you can see these as a dashed underline, if you hover over them you will see the expanded version appear.
Links and images:
Many links have title attributes that describe the link in greater detail, unless the text of the link already fully describes the target (such as the headline of an article).
Links are written to make sense out of context.
All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics include null ALT attributes.
Visual design:
This site uses valid cascading style sheets for positioning and visual layout, no tables have been used in the making of this site.
If your browser or browsing device does not support style sheets, the content of each page is still readable.
This site uses only relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified "text size" option in visual browsers.
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