Accessibility Features
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Accessibility features on our site
Our website has been designed to provide you with an enjoyable interactive experience, as well as to be as inclusive and accessible to everyone as possible. This page highlights what we have done to make our website accessible, and explains how to use these features. The links below can be used to navigate around this page.
Navigation aids & Links
On our site we have included features that are particularly useful for assistive technologies. We have included access keys to aid navigation, which are listed below. On this page there are a series of hidden intra-page links for users without style-sheets and users with assistive technologies to easily skip to any the added navigation. We have made our pages "device independent" and can be navigated by using a keyboard, mouse or combination of the two.
Many links have 'Title' attributes which describe the destination of
the link. Wherever possible links are written to make sense out of context,
so that you do not have to read the surrounding text to understand where
the link will take you. On any page, identically-worded links will always
link to the same page. You will always be warned if clicking on a link
opens a file or website in a new browser window.
Images
All images in our website have an alternative text (ALT) attribute, this
describes the contents or function of the image. This description will
be displayed when images are turned off, on a text-only browser or as
a 'tool tip' in certain browsers when the mouse pointer is moved over
the image. Where images have been used as backgrounds, we have used a
hidden text based description which can be read by assistive technologies
and displayed by text only browsers.
Visual Design
Our website has been designed to look great, to reflect our professional
attitude towards our customers, and our brand values. We are proud to
say that we have considered accessibility and usability during the design
of this website to make it easier for everyone to use. Our website uses
relative font sizes which can be resized in your browser (although this
may change the layout). Where colours are used we have tried to make sure
there is a good degree of contrast between foreground and background items.
If your browser or reading device does not support stylesheets, or you
wish to switch them off, all of our content will still be readable. Any
use of tables for tabular data or tabled structure has been apprpriately
marked-up for assistive technologies. All areas of content have been explained,
and where we have used drop-down navigation, we have provided a landing
page with these links on this page in case your browser does not support
our menu.
Style Sheets
This site uses Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for visual layout. If your
browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the use
of structured semantic markup ensures that the content of each page is
still readable and clearly structured. If you wish, you may import your
own stylesheet into this website. Select Internet Explorer select Tools,
then Internet Options, and then Accessibility. Next click on any or all
of 3 checkboxes to ignore colours, font styles or font sizes. In the same
window you can change your style sheet by clicking the checkbox that says,
'format document using my style sheet' then simply browse to your style
sheet and click OK. In Netscape select Edit, then Preferences and then
Appearance. You will then be given the choice to specify your own colours
and fonts. All forms follow a logical Tab sequence. Labels are associated
with fields using HTML label tags, (Changes of style sheets will change
the layout of the page, however pages are formatted to be readable without
style sheets). We have optimised our CSS for ie 6 and Mozilla firefox.
Access Keys
Below are a list of access keys designed to aid navigation around this site:
- h - links to the homepage
- b - about us
- s - skip to main content (for assistive technologies to avoid the main site navigation)
- 2 - skip to the secondary navigation (for longer pages)
- 3 - skip to centre content (on longer pages)
- 4 - skip to lower content (on longer pages)
- r - who we are
- v - our vision
- o - our values
- p - statement of faith
- i - What's on?
- d - sunday services
- g - small groups
- t - toddlers & co
- e - young people
- z - alpha
- q - celebrate recovery
- x - events
- w - What's on?
- l - links
- c - contact us
- a - accessibility
- k - information on access keys used in this site
- i - information on images used in this site
- d - information on visual design on this site
- 2 - information on style sheets used on this site