Accessibility
Website accessibility is all about ensuring that a web site is accessible to all users no matter what methods they are using to access the web site. This applies to visually impaired users with a screen reader installed just as much as it applies to a business user browsing the web site with a PDA on a triain.In order to help with accessibility as much as possible, we are striving to ensure that the site complies with all the guidelines published by the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 documentation. This gives the site a AAA rating. If you do spot anything that could be improved with respect to accessibility, please let us know and we will do our best to rectify it.
Some things you are able to do with an accessible website that you might find useful:
- Use a text only web browser to view and user the site without the unnecessary graphical distractions
- Disable the style sheet for the web site - for example in Firefox select the View menu, then Page Style, then No Style.
- Resize all the text on the web site to your needs. if you have a mouse wheel, try holding the Ctrl key and wiggling the mouse wheel up and down. If you don't have a mouse wheel select the View menu then the Text Size option in the most common web browsers.
The Special Families website aims to conform to section 508 and a WCAG 1.0 AAA rating. It has full support for browser-based font-resizing, is 100% readable even in text-based browsers.