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JISC RSC YH
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Accessibility Statement

We have endeavoured to make this site usable and accessible. We would like all visitors to be able find the information they are looking for quickly and easily. If you find a problem in using this site, please let us know. External links will open in a new browser window.

Usability and Accessibility features of the JISC RSC YH site

When using this site, you will find a number of features that will help you to find the information you are looking for:

Finding your place in the site

The navigation menus on the left and top of all pages shows each section of the site. If a section has more than one page you will find these links via the section index page. Breadcrumbs are used to assist you in finding your place within each section. We feel it is unnecessary to use Access Keys in view of the navigation design. In most cases, external links will open in a new browser window.

Returning to the home page

When you want to return to the home page, you can click on the Home Link (at the top of the navigation on every page).

Increasing the size of the text

If you prefer the font size on the web pages to be larger or smaller, you can control this using your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to change the size of the font displayed on the screen either permanently or temporarily. How you increase the font depends upon what browser you are using. Examples of how to increase or decrease fonts in several popular browsers follows:

Internet Explorer Version 7

You can increase or decrease the displayed font size by:

If you have a scroll wheel on your mouse you can also increase and decrease the size of the text by:

Internet Explorer Version 5.5 and 6:

Provides 5 font sizes (largest, larger, medium, smaller, and smallest). Medium is the default size.

You change font size by:

Or

The font size you select will remain in effect until you select a different size.

Firefox

Allows users to increase or decrease font size with shortcut keys.

If you want to increase the size further simply press the '+' key while still holding down the 'Ctrl' key.

 

To decrease the displayed font size:

If you want to decrease the size further simply press the '-' key while still holding down the 'Ctrl' key. Your selected font size will remain in effect until you close Firefox.

Opera Version 6.0 and above

You increase or decrease the displayed font size by:

If you have a wheel on your mouse you can also increase and decrease the size of the text by:

Netscape Navigator Version 4.7x and above

Allows users to increase or decrease font size with shortcut keys.

To increase the displayed font size:

To decrease the displayed font size:

Your selected font size will remain in effect until you close Netscape.

Visit your browser's help feature for additional information on this and other browser related topics..

Accessibility & usability standards

Making a site accessible to everyone who wants to use it is important, and we have tried to ensure that our site is completely accessible to all. We endeavour to test both the layout and content of our site to conform to W3C standards. If you find a page that does not conform to the standards below then please advise us.

Valid XHTML 1.0!

This site uses CSS and XHTML 1.0 Transitional and in our opinion conforms with level Double-A of the WCAG.

Most pages on this site support XHTML 1.0 Transitional [Extensible HyperText Markup Language version 1.0 transitional DTD].

The valid pages that have been tested against the standards given by World Wide Web Consortium [www.w3c.org] warrant the appropriate W3C icon.

Valid CSS!

Most pages on this site features CSS [Cascading Style Sheets]. Some browsers do not support all features in CSS and as a consequence you might experience irregularities in the design.

The most common browsers who are known to cause trouble are:

Netscape Navigator/Communicator 4.x users are deliberately excluded from some features due to the poor support for Cascading Style Sheets. Netscape has released a new version (6.01), which supports CSS.

The valid pages that have been tested for conformance against the standards given by World Wide Web Consortium [www.w3c.org] warrant the icon W3C CSS

Level Double-A conformance icon, W3C-WAI Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0

This site has been evaluated on the basis of Priority 1 and 2 items in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and warrants the icon W3C AA

Pages bearing this logo indicate a claim of conformance by the page author or content provider to conformance level Double-A of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, including all Priority 1 and Priority 2 checkpoints defined in the Guidelines. The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 explain how to make Web content accessible to people with disabilities. Conformance to these Guidelines will help make the Web more accessible to users with disabilities and will benefit all users. We feel it unecessary to display the W3C icons on every page in our site to demonstrate this.


With thanks to TechDis for advice on Accessibility Statement.

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