Accessibility
This is the official accessibility statement for the Tribal CTAD website.
Standards compliance
As far as possible, we have tried to ensure that:
- All pages comply with priority 1 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
- All pages validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
- The style sheets we use conform to W3C recommendations
Throughout this website you will find that:
- We have incorporated a text size option for visual browsers.
- We have provided a text equivalent for every non-text element, such as photos and graphics.
- Information conveyed with colour is also available without colour for people who cannot differentiate between certain colours or who use devices that have non-colour or non-visual displays.
- All pages can be read when style sheets are turned off or are not supported.
- We will ensure that equivalents for dynamic content are updated when the dynamic content changes.
- We have avoided content that causes the screen to flicker.
- We have used the clearest and simplest language appropriate for a site's content.
- We have only used html tables to tabulate data and they have not been used to structure or lay out pages.
- We have ensured that pages are usable when scripts, applets, or other programmatic objects are turned off or not supported.
Accessibility references
- W3 accessibility guidelines, which explain the reasons behind each guideline.
- W3 accessibility techniques, which explain how to implement each guideline.
- W3 accessibility checklist, a busy developer's guide to accessibility.
Accessibility software
- JAWS, a screen reader for Windows. A time-limited, downloadable demo is available.
- Home Page Reader, a screen reader for Windows. A downloadable demo is available.
- Lynx, a free text-only web browser for blind users with refreshable Braille displays.
- Links, a free text-only web browser for visual users with low bandwidth.
- Opera, a visual browser with many accessibility-related features, including text zooming, user stylesheets, image toggle. A free downloadable version is available. Compatible with Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and several other operating systems.
Accessibility services
- HTML Validator, a free service for checking that web pages conform to published HTML standards.
- Web Page Backward Compatibility Viewer, a tool for viewing your web pages without a variety of modern browser features.
- Lynx Viewer, a free service for viewing what your web pages would look like in Lynx.
Related resources
- WebAIM, a non-profit organisation dedicated to improving accessibility to online learning materials.
- Designing More Usable Web Sites, a large list of additional resources.
- Dive into Accessibility, an excellent practical guide to Web accessibility.
