Accessibility

ACCESS KEYS:

Most browsers support jumping to specific links by typing keys defined on the web site. On Windows, you can press SHIFT + ALT + an access key; on Macintosh, you can press Control + an access key.

Access key 0 - Accessibility statement
Access key 1 - Home page
Access key 2 - Light Relief Week
Access key 3 - Activity
Access key 4 - How your money helps
Access key 5 - Media
Access key 6 - Supporter Badges
Access key 7 - Sign up
Access key 8 - Corporate
Access key 9 - Donate Now

Access key P - Privacy Statement
Access key T - Term of Use
Access key S - Sitemap
Access key C - Contact Us

STANDARDS COMPLIANCE:

All pages on this site are WCAG A approved, complying wih all priority 1 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Many Priority 2 and 3 guidelines have also been followed in the creation of this web site. Again, this is a judgement call; many guidelines are intentionally vague and can not be tested automatically. We have reviewed all the guidelines and believe that all these pages are in compliance .

IMAGES AND LINKS:

All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics include null ALT attributes. All links have descriptive TITLE tags explaining their destination.

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 at all, the content of each page is still readable.

ACCESSIBILITY REFERENCES:

The W3 Accessibility Guidelines - these explain the reasons behind each guideline. W3 Accessibility Techniques - these explain how to implement each guideline. The W3 Accessibility Checklist is a website developer's guide to accessibility.

ACCESSIBILITY SOFTWARE:

We test our sites with a number of different web browsers including JAWS, a screen reader for Windows; Home Page Reader, a screen reader for Windows; 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; and Opera, a visual browser with many accessibility-related features, including text zooming, user stylesheets, and image toggle