Accessibility Statement for the Child Okeford website

The current Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) requires that goods and services are offered on equal terms to people with disabilities.

The Disability Discrimination Act of October 1999 requires that companies and individuals make reasonable adjustments to their websites in order to provide access to the disabled.

The Child Okeford website www.child-okeford.org.uk considers users of all abilities and we have followed the guidelines for accessibility of websites and we have tried to make our site accessible to all. Please contact us if you require more information or have any comments.

• Web Standards
• Increasing font size
• Changing screen colours
• Viewing full screen

Web Standards

The website has been built to web standards following the W3C guidelines and the pages validate to XHTML 1.0 strict.

The pages are WCAG AA approved, complying with all priority 1 and 2 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

This site uses valid CSS for positioning and visual layout. Tables have not been used to layout this site.

If your browser does not support style sheets, the content of each page is still readable.
This site uses only relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified "text size" option in visual browsers. See how to change the font sizes in specific browsers below.

How to increase the font size on this website (and most others)

Depending on which web browser you are using, follow the instructions below. The instructions may also work with other versions of the same web browser.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.5 and 6.0

• Open your browser
• Choose the drop down menu at the top of the window of the browser marked View
• A list of options will appear in the drop down menu - choose text size
• Next another drop down menu should appear with options including small, medium, large, largest
• Select large or largest
• The text in your browser window should now appear larger.

Netscape Navigator 6.2, 7.0 and Mozilla Firefox 1.7

• Open your Netscape or Firefox browser
• Hold down the Ctrl button on your keyboard and press the plus (+) key
• You will find that this will enlarge the text, to enlarge again repeat the procedure
• Keep repeating until the text is enlarged to your requirements
• If you need to make the text smaller press ctrl on your keyboard and the minus ( - ) key
• The text in your browser window should now appear larger.

Opera 7.2 and 8.5

• Open your Opera browser
• On the address bar (Top of page by default) to the right is a drop down box.
• Click on the box to the magnification required.

Changing screen colours in Internet Explorer

• To over-ride the default colours or colour schemes, if using Internet Explorer, go to the Tools menu and choose 'Internet options'.
• When the dialog box appears, click on the 'Colours' button and adjust accordingly by de-selecting the 'Use Windows colours' box.
• Then choose the 'Accessibility' button and tick the box labelled 'Ignore colours specified on Web pages'.

Viewing the full screen

• To view the full screen and remove some of the browser's navigation bars, press F11 once.
• Press it again to return the navigation bar

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