Accessibility features on this website

Hereford College of Arts recognises the importance of providing a website that is accessible to all user groups, including the disabled. The following features improve navigation for screen-reader users, keyboard navigation and users of text-only browsers.

 

Access keys

Access keys are keyboard shortcuts that replace the need to use the mouse for navigation in browsers that support them. In Internet Explorer on Windows, you can press ALT + an access key; on Macintosh, you can press Control + an access key; Then press Enter to activate the link. In Firefox, you can press SHIFT + ALT + an access key.

 

The following access keys are available throughout the website:

c - Jump to Content
0 - Jump to Accessibility Statement
n - Jump to Main Navigation

Standards Compliance

Our pages conform at a minimum to Level A compliance as specified by the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and endorsed by the Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB).

 

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

The CSS also validates.

Structured, semantic markup: Headings

HTML heading tags are used to convey document structure. H1 tags are used for main titles, H2 tags for subtitles, and so on.

 

Images

All content images used in this site include descriptive alt attributes. Purely decorative graphics include empty alt attributes.

 

Font sizes

You may change the font size of this document to your preference through your browser:

 

In the Firefox browser, select View, then Text Size, and then choose increase, or decrease.

 

In Internet Explorer, select View, then Text Size, and then your preferred size.

In Netscape select View, then Text Zoom, and then your preferred percentage size.

 

Style sheets

This site uses cascading style sheets 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.

 

Links

Linking text has been written to make sense out of context.
Where appropriate, links have title attributes which describe the link in greater detail, for example to advise you if the link will open in a new window.