Freshwater Umbrella
Accessibility information for the
Freshwater Umbrella website
Every effort has been made to make this website as accessible as possible. We recognise that the wide range of users who use the web do not all use the latest browser software and that some may have disabilities which may affect the way they access this site.
Access keys
Most browsers support jumping to specific links by typing keys defined on the web site. On Windows, you can press ALT + an access key; on Macintosh, you can press Control + an access key (depending on which browser you use). Please note that on Internet Explorer 6 for Windows typing the access key combination only selects the indicated link. To actually navigate to the page using the link, you must hit the return or enter key after typing the access key combination.
The access keys in use throughout this site are:
- Acces key 1 - Home page
- Acces key 2 - Air pollution
- Acces key 3 - Research
- Acces key 4 - Resources
- Acces key 5 - Members
- Acces key 6 - Database
- Acces key m - Site Map
- Acces key c - Contact
- Acces key 0 - Accessibility
- Acces key s - Search
Compliance with web standards
This website has been designed to conform to the standards set by the World
Wide Web Consortium for XHTML and
CSS for the creation and display of documents published on the
WWW. By making the pages conform to the standards they should be viewable
in a wide range of browser and other user agents, including future versions of these agents which are standards
compliant.
The Freshwater Umbrella web site has been designed to be rated AAA approved
, complying with all
priority 1, 2, and 3 guidelines of the W3C Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines. Where AAA approval is not possible every effort has been made to eliminate as many
non-compliant elements as possible. Most other pages have AA approval.
Design
We have used several design features to make our pages as accessible as possible. Some of these features are listed below:
- Used stylesheets instead of tables for layout, which still allows content to be read when the tables are linearised or displayed in a simple browser such as Lynx
- All images contain an alternative textual rendering
- Data tables and forms contain additional markup where necessary that may help assistive technologies such as screen readers
- Use of style sheets to separate content from display
- Appropriate use of HTML tags such as acronym and abbreviation tags