Accessibility

Visual Design

This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout and where possible all presentation has been completely separated from content.

1. This site makes use of stylesheets that allow for flexible resizing of fonts to meet user requirements. If you find that font sizes are too small simply increase the default font size used in your web browser software (for example, in Internet Explorer font sizes can be changed in the View Menu under ‘Text Size’). This feature may not work correctly in all web browsers.

If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.

Accessibility References

1. W3 accessibility guidelines, which explains the reasons behind each guideline.
2. W3 accessibility techniques, which explains how to implement each guideline.
3. W3 accessibility checklist, a busy developer’s guide to accessibility.
4. U.S. Federal Government Section 508 accessibility guidelines.

Accessibility software and services

1. HTML Validator, a free service for checking that web pages conform to published HTML standards.
2. Web Page Backward Compatibility Viewer, a tool for viewing your web pages without a variety of modern browser features.
3. JAWS, a screen reader for Windows. A time-limited demo is available.
4. Lynx, a free text-only web browser.

Irish Sites

http://www.nda.ie/ – The National Disability Authority. There are numerous links here to Irish sites of interest.
http://www.ahead.ie/ – The Association for Higher Education Access and Disability