Accessibility
We understand the importance of web accessibility, and have designed
and developed this website according to both recommended guidelines
and best practice standards.
This website complies with W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) Web
Content Accessibility Guidelines. Briefly explained, these guidelines
are broken down into 14 checkpoints, which are then sub-divided into
three levels of priority.
Priority 1, where all checkpoints must be satisfied. Priority 2,
where all checkpoints should be satisfied. Priority 3, where all
checkpoints may be satisfied. The accessibility of any website is
typically explained by it's compliance
to these checkpoints. Level 'A' means all Priority 1 checkpoints have
been satisfied. Level 'AA' means all Priority 2 checkpoints have been
satisfied. Level 'AAA' means all Priority 3 checkpoints have been satisfied.
With this in mind, we have designed and developed this website to
a minimum of level 'A' compliance and a vast majority of level 'AA'
compliance.
For full details of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines,
click here.
Access Keys
We have included the use of Access Keys to allow users to easily
navigate this website using only a keyboard. We have used the recommended
UK Government access keys standard where possible, which is based
on the widely adopted numbers system.
Access Keys for this website
0 - Accessibility (This Page)
1 - Home
2 - Media Centre (News)
3 - Sitemap
5 - About Comma
8 - Terms and Conditions
9 - Contact Us
S - Skip To Content
How to Use Access Keys
PC's
You need to hold down the ALT key, press the ACCESS KEY depending on
where you wish to navigate to, RELEASE both keys then press the
ENTER key.
Macs
You need to hold down the CTRL key, and then press the relevant
ACCESS KEY depending on where you wish to navigate to.
Text Language and Style
We have used plain language, which is easy to understand and avoids
jargon. Any large sections of text have been broken into manageable
chunks, eg. paragraphs, to make them easier to comprehend.
Text is presented at an easy to read size by default, and is spaced
to maximise legibility. All links are clearly marked using distinctive
styles.
Use of Images
We have ensured that all images on this website have alternative
text elements, commonly referred to as alt text or alt tags.
This allows text based browsers and other accessibility technology
including screen readers
to clearly identify and describe what the image conveys to users.
So as not to overwhelm users, we have not applied alt text to superfluous
or purely decorative imagery, but rather kept the alt text to only
sensible elements on a given page.
We have made an effort to ensure live text or accessible text
technologies are used instead of graphics wherever possible on this
website. This allows both more control over text sizes by the user,
and increases page
download time allowing users quicker access to the website.
We have optimised all images across the website to ensure they
download as quickly as possible, whilst retaining good visual quality.
Rich Media Content
This website makes use of a variety of rich media content, including
video and animation. We have ensured all rich media elements have
alternative static imagery, accompanied by alternative text elements
describing clearly
what is being conveyed. In addition, all video elements on the website
are accompanied by captions explaining what is being depicted.
Web Browser Compatibility
We have tested this website to ensure its full compatibility with
the following specific web browsers on both PC and Mac platforms:
Internet Explorer 6.0 and above, Mozilla Firefox 2.0 and above,
Safari 1.0 and above.
We would expect full or close to full compliance with all other web browsers.
Feedback
We've aimed to make this website accessible and comply with the W3C
guidelines wherever possible. It's been fully tested and we're really
happy with it, but we'd love to know what you think!
If you want to give us feedback on the site from an accessibility
perspective, or any other perspective for that matter, please feel
free to get in touch.
Useful Links
Below are some links which we feel are really useful with regards
to accessibility, guidelines and accessible technologies.
W3C Web Content Accessiblity Guidelines
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/
The Web Standards Project
http://www.webstandards.org/
UK Disability Discrimination Act (DDA)
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/DisabledPeople/RightsAndObligations/ DisabilityRights/DG_4001068
International Government Web Accessibility Guidelines
http://www.standards-schmandards.com/projects/government-guidelines/
Screen Reader Software
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_screen_readers
Speech Recognition Technology
http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Speech_Technology/
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