Accessibility

Accessibility Target

To provide a website that is accessible by as wider an audience as possible, taking into account the varying needs that different users have.

Formal Accessibility Guidelines

The W3C's guideline standards for accessibility, WCAG, have global site scope at Priority Level 2 (Double A). This means that our website is at a level above the 'good practise' accessibility standards. (We do our utmost to stay within these guidelines, however on occasion the site could slip down to Priority Level 1 (Single A). Please note also that there is no enforceable mechanism for checking the validity of a W3C accessiblity guideline claim: it is down to the individual website.)

Browsers

This website has been developed to the XHTML Transitional standard, making it render correctly with Internet Explorer 8, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Opera Chrome, Apple Safari, as well as other browsers. The Website Administrator recommends that all users try Firefox, a free and open source alternative to IE. If offers more features than IE and is generally more accurate in its rendering capabilities.

Text Sizes

All text sizes have been defined in percentages, making it easy for users to use their browser font size options to control text size. You can find the relevant options by consulting your help documents.

Scaling

This website has been designed for optimum viewing on screens with a resolution of at least 1024x768. The website automatically scales itself to all resolutions above this.

Semantic Markup

As part of the XHTML standards more semantic markup has been used. All headings use inbuilt heading tags, and the drop-down menus degrade gracefully to bulleted lists in the event that CSS support is not available. As no tables are used for presentation the website degrades gracefully as a whole, maintaining the intended flow that is enhanced using the CSS support.

Access Keys

Each area (General, Cubs, etc) can be accessed via an access key, which is the first letter of its name. For example, to go to the General Area you would press ALT + g on your keyboard.

Valid Document Types

This website has been coded to the W3C's xHTML 1.0 Transitional standard, one of the most modern standards available. It ensures correct rendering and compatibility. It is also futureproof for the next generation of XML documents.