London Sports Forum For Disabled People ~ Accessibility

Accessibility

Page magnification

This site has a page magnification button (zoom button) for visually impaired / low vision visitors. You can find the zoom button at the top corner of the website to zoom the page to larger font sizes. Zooming the page to large fonts might mean that you will have to scroll left and right to see the whole paragraph. For better legibility standard fonts and colour contrasts have been used. The use of less graphics has been prioritised to keep the pages clean and more legible for visually impaired / low vision site visitors. You can reset the zoom level to standard font size by pressing the 'reset' button.

Please be advised that this site uses javascript to achieve this magnification feature. You will have to enable this feature on your web browser to make use of this feature. Please click here to learn how to enable this feature on your specific browser.

For Mozilla Firefox and Opera users, please use CTRL plus + on your keyboard to increase the font size of the page.

Stylesheets

http://www.londonsportsforum.org.uk uses Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to control all of the presentation and layout. All design layouts are now controlled by the external stylesheets which will mean that screen reader users no longer have to listen to this design layout (tables and elements) information.

Use of CSS also means that screen reader users can use the screen reader's navigation key to get around the site. If you are listening to the site, menus are grouped together in a more logical fashion.

Content

The content has been written and formatted to make it accessible. For example:

headings highlight sections of text
sentences are short with the meaning at the beginning
links use meaningful text
forms can be navigated using the tab key.

Access Keys

Access keys are used on this site to aid navigation. On Windows you can press ALT + an access key and on a Macintosh you press Control + an access key.

There are no agreed standards for the use of access keys, but we have followed the UK Government guidelines as much as possible.

S - Skip the navigation
h - Home page
a - Accessibility information (this page)
1 - Inclusive and Active
2 - Coach Ability
3 - Contact
4 - Sitemap
5 - Privacy Policy

Access keys have been supported by Internet Explorer since version 4 and by Netscape since version 6. Older browsers will just ignore them.

Mozilla / Firefox: Hold down the ALT key and select the number/letter of the access key. In case of problems please check for the latest version download available.
Internet Explorer 5+: Hold down the ALT key and select the number/letter of the access key, then press ENTER
Internet Explorer 4: Hold down the ALT key and select the number/letter of the access key
Internet Explorer 5+ for Mac: Hold down the CTRL key and select the number/letter of the access key.
Internet Explorer 4.5 for Mac: Access keys are not supported.
Netscape 6+: Hold down the ALT key and select the number/letter of the access key.
Netscape earlier versions: Access keys are not supported.

Structured and semantic markup

Hypertext markup language (HTML) heading tags are used to convey document structure. H1 tags are used for main titles, H2 tags for subtitles etc. Navigation menus are marked up as HTML lists ensuring that the number of links in the list is read out at the start and it can be skipped easily.

Images

All non-decorative images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes.

Standards Compliance

All pages validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict and use structured semantic markup.

All layout and styling in this site is kept separate to content with CSS2 which validates correctly.

This site conforms to Level AAA compliance as specified by the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and endorsed by the Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB).

Links

Links out of the site that are not within our sphere of influence open in a new window.