About this Accessibility statement
This is the official accessibility statement for stranraerchamber.co.uk. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to email me at webmaster@stranraerchamber.co.uk.
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 (often followed by pressing the Enter key); on Macintosh, you can press Control + an access key.
All pages on this site define the following access keys:
- Access key 1 - Home page / About the Chamber
- Access key 2 – News and Events
- Access key B – Benefits of Joining
- Access key J – Join the Chamber
- Access key 9 – Contact the Chamber
- Access key L – Useful Links
- Access key D – DG Chamber site
- Access key 0 - Accessibility statement
Pages with forms have the following access keys:
- Access key N – Your Name
- Access key E – Your Email Address
- Access key Q – Question or Comment
- Access key S – Submit Form
- Access key 8 – Email the Chamber
Standards compliance
- All pages on this site are Cynthia Says tested. As this is an automated test, it cannot be claimed that the site is fully accessible without some additional manual testing.
- All pages on this site are tested by The Wave. As this is an automated test, it cannot be claimed that the site is fully accessible without some additional manual testing.
- Please note that the contact page of this website does not validate with Cynthia Says or The Wave due to the anti-spam CAPTCHA device used. However, reCAPTCHA does more than enough to compensate for this by providing an audio version of the CAPTHA for blind or visually impaired users.
- All pages on this site is WCAG AA approved, complying with all priority 1 and 2 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. This is judgement call as many guidelines are intentionally vague and can not be tested automatically. I have reviewed all the guidelines and believe that all these pages are in compliance.
- All pages on this site validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict. This is not a judgement call - a program can determine with 100% accuracy whether a page is valid XHTML. For example, check the home page for XHTML validity.
- All CSS used on this site validate in accordance to the W3C's guidelines. This is not a judgement call - a program can determine with 100% accuracy whether a page is valid CSS.
- All pages on this site use structured semantic markup. H1 tags are used for main titles, H2 tags for subtitles and so on.
Navigation aids
- All pages have previous, next and home links to aid navigation in text-only browsers (graphic browsers will not show these links).
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.
Visual design
- This site uses cascading style sheets (CSS) for visual layout, which separates content from design.
- 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.
Accessibility references
- W3 accessibility guidelines, which explains the reasons behind each guideline.
Accessibility software
- Thunder - a free screen reader for Windows XP and Vista.
- JAWS - a screen reader for Windows. A time-limited, 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.
