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Accessibility Statement
This website is valid CSS, XHTML and has been designed with consideration to accessibility standards.
SmokeFree Liverpool recognises the importance of providing a website that is accessible to all user groups, including the disabled.
Standards Compliance
Our pages conform at a minimum to Level A compliance as specified by
the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and endorsed by the
Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB). The majority of Level AA
and AAA requirements
are also met.
We strive to obey the spirit of the Disability Discrimination
Act (DDA) of 1995 with respect to the provision of services online,
as required by the Disability Rights Commission (DRC).
While we use Bobby to test for accessibility, it is just one
aspect of our testing procedure. As a computer programme, the Bobby
test
is not as reliable as expert evaluation. Pages are also tested
in the following
screen readers: Jaws for Windows and IBM Homepage Reader.
Navigation Shortcuts
There is a short menu at the start of every page that allows
you to jump directly to the most important parts of the page,
including main
content and navigation. Sighted people who use the keyboard
to navigate will see these links appear on screen when using the
Tab
key to navigate
through the page.
Each shortcut has an access key assigned.
Access Keys
Access keys are keyboard shortcuts that replace the need to
use the mouse for navigation, in browsers that support them.
In Internet
Explorer on Windows, you can press ALT + an access key; on
Macintosh, you can press
Control + an access key. Then press Enter to activate the
link.
Text Only
This website has a ‘text-only’ version for visually impaired
readers. With the use of Cascading Style Sheets, we can provide those
who require a high contrast, large text format of this website, without
depriving them of any content available on the Graphics version of the
website. We did not have to build ‘two’ websites to supply
the text only version – we have achieved this feature with the power
of cascading style sheets.
Valid CSS
All pages validate as CSS 1.0.
Valid XHTML
All pages validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional and use structured
semantic markup.
Cross Browser Testing
We recognize that not all site visitors use the
same browsers, platforms and hardware. As a result, all pages are tested
across a range of different
browsers and on both Mac and PC computers. This testing ensures that
as many people as possible experience the website as our designers intended.