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Accessibility help

Help in making our website look the way you want

My Web My Way was developed by AbilityNet and the BBC as a source of accessibility help for all computer users.  It includes information on changing not only the colours and text size and style of our website, but will explain how these changes can be made to affect every site you visit if you wish.

Accessibility features

We offer the following accessibility features on our site:

  • a skip to content link to help screen reader and keyboard users access content quickly
  • a sitemap
  • alternative stylesheets (or viewing themes)
  • resizable text
  • a flexible page layout (the page resizes with the width of your browser window)
  • accesskeys (shortcut keys) to assist navigation. The accesskeys on this site are as follows:

    • alt + 1 = Skip to content
    • alt + 2 = Accessibility
    • alt + 3 = Contact Us
    • alt + 4 = Site Map
    • alt + 5 = Home
    • alt + 6 = About Us
    • alt + 7 = Events
    • alt + 8 = Tutors
    • alt + 9 = FAQ's
    • alt + 0 = Resources
    • alt + - = Links
    • alt + = = Join Us

Please note that the accesskeys may not work on all browsers. On an Apple Macintosh make use of the ctrl key instead of the alt key.

Accessibility and usability of our site

Our website strives to uphold the principles and best practice of the WCAG 1.0 AAA guidelines.  While we aim to comply with the WCAG guidelines, we recognise that web technology has moved on since their creation, and a number of them are less applicable than at their time of publication.  Our central objective is users finding our site accessible and usable in practice.  As with all sites we create, attention to the accessibility of the code and extensive end user testing ensures that this is the case.

Listen to this site

You can listen to this site being read aloud. For further information click on the Browsealoud icon below. browsealoud icon

Our site’s code

The site has been built to comply with standards (x)HTML and CSS2.  At every stage the code has been checked for accessibility using a range of automated and (more significantly) manual checks.  In older browsers (Netscape and Internet Explorer 4 and earlier) it will appear as an unstyled document.   All information and functionality will still be accessible.

‘Skip to’ Navigation Link

At the top of every page is a hidden link that is spoken by screen-reading software and will appear when 'tabbed to' using a keyboard. It is the first link and, when selected, will make reading skip past the rest of the menu items and commence at the beginning of the main page content.

Feedback

We welcome feedback on the Accessibility and usability of our website.  If you have had any problems or any issues while using our site, we would like to hear about it!  Contact Us.