Ukqualitywebsites has developed this website to serve the largest possible audience by addressing the needs of people and systems with differing abilities. The site conforms to the Web Accessibility Initiative of the World Wide Web Consortium, levels 1 and 2. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to contact us at
enquiries@visitshaftesburydorset.co.uk
Access Keys
Access key 1 - Home page
Access key 3 - Table of contents
Access key 4 - Search
Access key 8 - Terms of use
Access key 9 - Feedback
Access key 0 - Accessibility statement
Ulike Systems
All pages on this site are Bobby AAA approved, complying with all the Bobby guidelines. This is always where a view has to be taken; many accessibility features can be measured, but many can not. We have reviewed all the guidelines and believe that all these pages are in compliance.
All pages on this site are WCAG AAA approved, complying wih all priority 1, 2, and 3 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Again, this is where a view has to be taken; many guidelines are by definition vague and can not be tested automatically. We have reviewed all the guidelines and believe that all these pages are in compliance.
All pages on this site are Section 508 approved, complying with all of the U.S. Federal Government Section 508 Guidelines. Again, a view has been taken. We have reviewed all the guidelines and believe that all these pages are in compliance.
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=previous, next, up, 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).
The tips are cross-referenced in several ways. You can browse the tips
by disability,
by design principle,
by assistive technology, and
by publishing tool.
The home page and all archive pages include a search box (access key 4). A
Links
Many links have title attributes which 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.
Images
All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics include null ALT attributes.
Complex images include LONGDESC attributes or inline descriptions to explain the significance of each image to non-visual readers.
Visual Design
This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.
This site uses only relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified "text size" option in visual browsers.
If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.
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
Bobby, a free service to analyze web pages for compliance to accessibility guidelines. A full-featured commercial version is also available.
HTML Validator, a free service for checking that web pages conform to published HTML standards.
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