This is the official accessibility statement for the Scottish Women in Business website. If you have any questions or comments, please email us at admin@scottishwomeninbusiness.org.uk.
Standards compliance
- As best we can determine, all pages on this site are WCAG AAA approved, complying with all priority 1, 2, and 3 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.This is a judgement call; many guidelines are intentionally vague and can not be tested automatically. We have reviewed the guidelines and believe that this site is compliant.
- All pages on this site validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional. This is not a judgement call; a program can determine with 100% accuracy whether a page is valid XHTML.
- All pages on this site use structured semantic markup. H1 tags are used for main titles, H2 and H3 tags for subtitles.
Links
- Links are clearly written 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.
Visual design
- This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.
- If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.
- This site is useable on every browsing device including WebTV, PDAs, Smartphones and older computers.
Accessibility references
- W3 accessibility guidelines , which explains the reasons behind each guideline.
- W3 accessibility techniques , which explains how to implement each guideline.
- W3 accessibility checklist , a busy developer's guide to accessibility.
Accessibility software
- JAWS, a screen reader for Windows. A time-limited, downloadable demo is available.
- Lynx, a free text-only web browser for blind users with refreshable Braille displays.
- Links, a free text-only web browser for visual users with low bandwidth.
- Opera, a visual browser with many accessibility-related features, including text zooming, user stylesheets, image toggle. A free downloadable version is available. Compatible with Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and several other operating systems.
Accessibility services
- Bobby, a free service to analyse web pages for compliance to accessibility guidelines. A full-featured commercial version is also available.
- HTML Validator, a free service for checking that web pages conform to published HTML standards.
- Web Page Backward Compatibility Viewer, a tool for viewing your web pages without a variety of modern browser features.
- Lynx Viewer, a free service for viewing what your web pages would look like in Lynx.
Related resources
- WebAIM, a non-profit organisation dedicated to improving accessibility to online learning materials.
- Designing More Usable Web Sites, a large list of additional resources.
