ACCESSIBILITY

The thinkingAHEAD website has been designed with regard to the recommendations laid down by the World Wide Web Consortium Accessibility Initiative (WAI). In addition we have adopted a number of conventions as listed below:-
 

• For visitors using screen readers, there is a "Skip Navigation" link at the top of each page. This bypasses both the main navigation and the secondary menu bar in the right hand column.
• The TAB sequence on each page follows the natural order of links.
• Access keys have not been provided as the argument about whether they conflict with settings on adaptive technology programmes has not been resolved. Read this discussion from WebAim.
• All pages on the site have been configured such that a print-out of the page (File/Print) will display only the content in the main body of that page.

Text Re-Sizing
 
The thinkingAHEAD site has been designed such that all text is re-sizable by the user. Varying the text size is achieved in slightly different ways according to which browser the visitor is using. For users of Internet Explorer, Netscape or Firefox, go to the "View" menu at the top of the browser window and select "Text Size" and your choice of text size; for users of Opera go to "View" and then select "Zoom". Other browsers behave in a similar manner.