We are committed to making our website as accessible as possible with a view to achieving W3C AA compliance. This is an ongoing process and we are continually reviewing the site and making improvements to its accessibility. If you have any questions or suggestions regarding the accessibility of this site, please use our contact form.
Standards compliance
- All pages on this site follow the priority 1 & 2 guidelines for the W3C Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0.
- All pages on this site validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
- All pages on this site use structured semantic markup.
h1tags are used for main titles,h2tags for subtitles.
Structural Markup
Web pages on www.scisys.co.uk include four or five different areas
Four area pages have:
- A header bar that includes the main navigation,
- A left hand side bar that contains a sub-menu,
- A main content area,
- A footer.
Five area pages have:
- A header bar that includes the main navigation,
- A left hand side bar that contains a sub-menu,
- A main content area,
- A right hand side bar,
- A footer.
When CSS (Cascading Styles Sheet) are not applied to a document (or when using a screen reader), the areas are read in the above order.
Page Elements
Images
- Unless they are purely decorative items, all images used on this web site have suitable
altattributes that describe the image. - Content is intended be usable/accessible with images "off" (i.e with images disabled).
Links
- Many links have title attributes which describe the link in greater detail, unless the text of the link fully describes the target.
- Links are written to make sense out of context.
- Menu links are assumed to be sufficiently clear and not require title text.
- The first link in every document is a Skip Navigation link; it allows the user to skip directly to what is considered the main section of the page (the content). We have implemented this feature in a way that it allows Internet Explorer users to tab through (past that target link).
- URLs are permanent whenever possible.
Forms
- All form controls are appropriately and explicitly labelled.
- We provide an email address as an alternative form of access for our online forms.
- Form validation routines do not rely on client-side script.
Scripts
- We are using non obtrusive client-side scripts.
- Content of this web site is usable without JavaScript support.
Pop up Windows
- This site does not use pop-up windows.
- Where a link opens a new window, this behaviour is indicated by "(opens in new window)".
- Where a link opens a PDF or other document type, it will be noted that the page will open if possible.
Visual design
- This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.
- This site uses only relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified "text size" option in visual browsers.
- If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets, the content of each page is still readable.
- Any information conveyed through the use of color is also available without color (i.e. text based).
- This site has been designed for the following browsers:
- Internet Explorer Version 6.0 and above
- Firefox Version 2.0
- Opera 8.0
