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Accessibility
Front of Mind is committed to providing a website that achieves good standards of accessibility so that its content is accessible to a wide audience.
We aim to make this website accessible to everyone. We are committed to helping improve accessibility by doing everything feasible to make our services easier to use. Therefore, if you experience any kind of problem or have any feedback about the website we would like to hear from you. Please e-mail info@frontofmind.co.uk.
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (WCAG 1.0) explain how to make web content more accessible for people with disabilities. Conformance with these guidelines will help make the web more user friendly for all people.
W3C Standards compliance
This site was built to achieve priority levels 1 & 2 (WCAG 1 – Double A) of the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) guidelines, part of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
This site has been built using code compliant with W3C standards for XHTML and CSS. This will help the site display correctly in current browsers and using standards compliant XHTML/CSS code means any future browsers will also display it correctly.
Front of Mind web content publishers will strive to maintain these standards employing best practice techniques where certain Priority 1/2 checkpoints have become outdated.
Approach
Front of Mind is committed in approach to focus on real people facing real access issues, rather than exclusively focussing on strict compliance with technical standards.
Accessibility options
The following section outlines some of the accessibility features that we have provided for our website users and guidance on how to use them. Please refer to your web browser and operating system 'Help' for their additional accessibility features.
Adjusting the text size
The text size used throughout the site is easily increased or decreased using your browser. A couple of examples of how to do this are listed below:
- Internet Explorer View > Text Size. You can also use Tools > Internet options > Accessibility
- Firefox View > Text Size > Increase Font, or use the keyboard shortcut by pressing Control and +.
- Opera View > Preferences > Fonts then change Minimum Font Size
- Safari Safari > Preferences > Advanced then select minimum font size to display
Listening to frontofmind.co.uk
Those with their own screen reading software should find that it works well on frontofmind.co.uk.
Even if you don't have your own software, a free service can be used to read frontofmind.co.uk aloud to you, under your control. Anyone can use the service, which is provided by Browsealoud.
Design
The Front of Mind site has been optimized to be viewed at a minimum screen resolution of 1024 x 768 within the following browsers and their corresponding newer versions:
- Internet Explorer 6
- Firefox 1.0
- Opera 8.0
- Safari 2.0
The pages are not based on frames and can therefore be printed easily by clicking on the 'Printable version' button within every page of the website.
Cascading Style Sheets have been used to control the presentation of pages and properly structured mark-up has been used for content, for a full explanation of the accessibility benefits of this see "Why using CSS improves accessibility"
If stylesheets are not supported or are turned off, information on the site can still be accessed and read.
The text within the content pages has been set to relative sizes, which can be increased or decreased for more comfortable screen reading.
Navigation
The site’s navigation is provided in text for improved readability.
The navigation has been designed to be as user-friendly as possible, allowing all site content to be viewed within the minimum number of mouse clicks. It is also possible to access the content pages of the site by using the 'Search' function.
Images
All informational images will contain relevant alternative text. Where images contain important information, such as graphs and charts, alternative information is provided in the form of inline descriptions or tabular data.
CSS
The site has been designed using CSS. No tables or frames of any kind have been used in the design of this website.
Contact
We've done our best to ensure this site is as accessible as possible, but it can happen that accessibility problems do arise despite our best efforts.
We encourage any users, experiencing problems with our site to email us at: info@frontofmind.co.uk . We will work to solve any issues as a priority and where possible, will respond to individual requests for information in alternative formats.
