Our Accessibility Statement
We are a community web-site, and we want to be as accessible as possible. That's why we try to comply with local, national, european and international standards.
In particular, we have tried our best to comply with the standards laid down by the W3C-WCAG. These are the boys and girls who set the international standards for web-site accessibility.
So we are trying to make all pages on this site comply with W3C-WCAG AAA guidelines version 1. This is a bit of a judgement call; many guidelines are intentionally vague. On the whole we have tried to meet a strict interpretation of the guidelines.
We ran the Bobby Test and we think we meet Bobby at level AAA. This is a judgement call, too; Bobby can't check everything automatically. As a double check, we have also run the "Cynthia Says" test and any other validators we could get our hands on, including Totalvalidator.
We have tried to ensure that all pages on this site validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict. If you spot a bug, let us know!
We have tried to keep content separate from presentation, by using cascading style sheets. (We don't use tables for layout.) Obviously, we have validated the stylesheet against the official validator.
We have used JavaScript for page elements that are used repeatedly, because this makes maintenance a lot easier, but we always provide a "noscript" alternative.
.We have used the Lynx Viewer to check that pages work reasonably OK in text mode.