Accessibility Statement
This is the official accessibility statement for the whydrive website.
The whydrive website has been designed with the intention of making the content accessible to the widest range of visitors, regardless of disability or impairment. This has been achieved by adhering to best practices, such as compliance with W3C standards, and by careful reference to the standards set out by other organisations to improve access by people with disabilities.
This accessible website was designed and developed by Jimmyweb website design.
This accessibility statement records the main steps that we have taken within this website design, to accommodate the needs of disabled people:
Standards compliance
Standards compliance is important to us, the pages on this website have been built to comply with a minimum standard of WCAG AA, complying with all priority 1 and 2 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
As part of our Standards compliance efforts, all web pages on this website validate as HTML 4.01 Strict.
The website design is structured to use semantic markup. H1 tags are used for main titles, H2, H3 and H4 tags for subtitles.
Visual design
This web site design 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.
Images
All images used in this standards compliant website design include descriptive ALT attributes and/or TITLE attributes to explain the significance of each image to non-visual readers and to give further information on the image.
Navigation aids
All web pages contain a link to the home page, and the menu system has been designed in a consistent fashion throughout the website to increase overall access to all of the information that is available.
Links
Many links have title attributes, which describe the link in greater detail. Links are written to make sense out of context.
All links linking to web pages within this website open in the existing window. Only links, linking to external website pages open in new windows.
Fonts
This website uses only relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified text size option in visual browsers.
The most common visual browser is Microsoft Internet Explorer and we have provided the following description of how to change your font size display in MSIE version 6:
Select 'View' from the top pull down menu options.
Select 'Font Size' from the View menu options.
Select the font size that you prefer from the list of five available options.
Many website visitors with impaired vision need to increase the font size from the default Medium setting to Larger or Largest.
Some visually impaired website users need to take further steps to make websites visible. Internet Explorer and many other browsers enable you to specify your own Cascading Style Sheet that will override the styling of the websites that you view. This will give you full control of the visual appearance of the text in website design. You can find out more about specifying your own CSS file by using the Help function within your web browser software.