Accessibility, Usability & Web Standards
The Rawmarsh City Learning Centre website has been built using current web standards. The website is fully XHTML and CSS compliant. Although, because of current limitations of the common browsers, the content type is served as text / HTML to all users. This decision will be reviewed periodically based on browser support.
The Rawmarsh City Learning Centre website has also been built with consideration for accessibility and usability. While we acknowledge that no site is accessible to all users all of the time our design approach ensures that the Rawmarsh City Learning Centre website is available to the greatest group of users / visitors possible.
The World Wide Web Consortium publish Web Content Accessibility Guidelines which we check the site against to help guide and influence the accessibility considerations of the design.
After considering the checkpoints we judge the Rawmarsh City Learning Centre website meets "AA" compliance on the vast majority of pages.
Whilst we satisfy the majority of the "AAA" level checkpoints we do not satisfy them all, and therefore do not claim "AAA" compliance.
As a baseline we will strive for "AA" compliance on all pages, but we will also try to satisfy as many of the checkpoints from as many compliance levels as possible on a per page basis.
If you have something to say about the accessibility of the Rawmarsh City Learning Centre website then please use our contact page to give us your feedback using your preferred method.
The Rawmarsh City Learning Centre website looks best when viewed with a modern graphical, standards compliant browser such as Mozilla Firefox. But, Because the site has been built from the ground up using web standards and with accessibility and usability in mind, the pages will work with older browsers and text-based browsers such as Lynx. In all scenarios the same content is available to all visitors but there may be compromises on the aesthetics of the site which has been designed to degrade well across browsers.
The site should also be usable for people that using screen readers and although the site has been tested with pwWebspeak we would like to hear from anyone using any other screen readers about the content of the site and how it could be improved for them.
Access Keys
The following access keys are available:
- 1
- Go to home page
- 2
- Skip to the main content on the page
- 9
- Go to the contact information page
- 0
- Go to information about accessibility page
Windows users can navigate with the access key feature by pressing Alt & access key. On the Mac, you would use Ctrl & access key. Internet Explorer users may also need to hit the enter key to activate a link.