Accessibility Statement

Stylesheets

We have included an alternative magnified and high contrast stylesheet entitled High contrast version for those who are sight impaired. Return to the default style at any time by clicking the Standard version link at the bottom of the main menu block. You may also completely disengage the stylesheet for content-only browsing. Again, use the links in the main menu to reinstate a style.

Access Keys

Access keys are used on this site to aid navigation. There are no agreed standards for the use of access keys, but we have followed and extended the UK Government guidelines as much as possible.

• s - Skip to start of content
• m - Skip to main menu
• n - Skip to header navigation items
• b - Back to the top of the page
• 1 - Home page
• 3 - Site map
• 4 - Search
• 5 - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
• 8 - Terms and conditions
• 9 - Contact us
• 0 - Access key details

Access keys have been supported by Internet Explorer since version 4 and by Netscape since version 6. Older browsers will just ignore them.

Mozilla / Firefox:

Hold down the ALT key and select the number/letter of the access key. Firefox 2.0 update: Hold down SHIFT and ALT instead of just ALT. Currently, numeric keys are not supported by Firefox 2.0. This should change with the next release.

Internet Explorer 5+:

Hold down the ALT key and select the number/letter of the access key, then press ENTER

Internet Explorer 4:

Hold down the ALT key and select the number/letter of the access key

Internet Explorer 5+ for Mac:

Hold down the CTRL key and select the number/letter of the access key

Internet Explorer 4.5 for Mac:

Access keys are not supported

Netscape 6+:

Hold down the ALT key and select the number/letter of the access key

Netscape earlier versions:

Access keys are not supported

Structured and semantic markup

HTML heading tags are used to convey document structure. H1 tags are used for main titles, H2 tags for subtitles etc.

Navigation menus are marked up as HTML lists ensuring that the number of links in the list is read out at the start and it can be skipped easily

Images

All non-decorative images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes.

Font size

This site uses relative font sizes. This means that most text can be enlarged to the users needs in most browsers. If you have a "mouse wheel", try holding down the Ctrl key and rolling it back and forth.

Standards Compliance

acornartscentre.co.uk conforms to Level AA compliance as specified by the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and endorsed by the Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB).

All pages validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict and use structured semantic markup.

All layout and styling in this site is kept separate to content with CSS2 which validates correctly.