Accessibility

 

Should you have difficulty accessing information on any of our website pages, please contact us so we can supply  the information to you in another form.


Standards compliance

  • Built to comply with all priority 1, 2, and 3 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
  • All pages on this site validate as XHTML 1.0 transitional.

 

Cascading Stylesheets (CSS)

  • This site uses cascading style sheets for layout and presentation.
  • This site uses relative font sizes to enable users to resize text using the "text size" option in visual browsers
  • If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the content of each page is still readable and presented in a logical order.
  • A separate print stylesheet is used to remove unnecessary navigation elements and to ensure that all the information you need fits on A4 paper.

 

Access keys

Most browsers support jumping to specific links by typing keys defined on the website. On Windows, you can press ALT + an access key then Enter; on Macintosh, you can press Control + an access key.

 

All pages on this site define the following access keys:

  • Access key h - homepage
  • Access key a - about ruby
  • Access key s - services
  • Access key e - events
  • Access key w - what's new
  • Access key c - charity
  • Access key g - gossip
  • Access key t - get in touch

 

Links

  • Links embedded in the main content have been styled using colour and emphasis to appear distinct from the rest of the content, even to colourblind users.
  • Care has been taken to ensure that links are described logically rather than 'click here' to make sense out of context.

 

Images

  • All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes.
  • Purely decorative graphics include null ALT attributes.