Accessibility

Our aim is to make the Familiy Action website accessible to all, including those users with visual, cognitive, hearing or mobility impairments.

The site is being made compatible with adaptive technologies currently used to help people with disabilities to use computers. This includes screen reading/magnifying software, voice-activated input software, and switch access.

Text Resizing To increase the text size on your screen, please follow these instructions:

PC - Internet Explorer 6: from the top menu bar, select View and point to Text size.
PC - Internet Explorer 7: from the menu bar underneath the search field, select Page and point to Text size.
PC - Other browsers: increase text size: hold down the CTRL key and press +. To decrease text size: Hold down the CTRL key and press –

Mac - all browsers: increase text size: hold down the Command key and press +. To decrease text size: hold down the Command key and press –

Guidelines Our aim is that the Family Action site will comply with the Web Accessibility Initiative Guidelines 1.0. These are the definitive international guidelines for ensuring accessibility.

The guidelines are divided into three levels of compliance: Single-A (what you must do), Double-A (what you should do), and Triple-A (what you may do). Specifically, we are working on ensuring that the site complies with Double-A standard. This means we will meet all priority one and two checkpoints of the guidelines.

Improvements We Are Making Some of the specific steps we are taking to improve accessibility include:

to give images appropriate alternative text so that the information they contain is conveyed to those who cannot see them
to make the text of links adequately meaningful so that their target is clear when they are read out of context
to make the language of the text plain and easy to understand so that the pages have good readability
to make text resizeable by users in their browser
to ensure that foreground and background colours contrast sufficiently so that information is conveyed to those who have difficulty distinguishing colours
to provide a sitemap to aid those who have trouble using the main navigation system.