Accessibility

LowCVP is committed to making our website content accessible to all users and we have attempted to achieve this. Information about accessibility features can be found below. We recognise that some users may still experience problems. If you do, we ask you to contact us and we will make every effort to resolve the issue.

Standards compliance

All pages within the LowCVP website comply with priority 1 and 2 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
All pages validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional
The stylesheet validates using the W3C CSS Validator

Accessibility Features
Our website has been designed with a number of accessibility features. These include:

Alternative text
Readable and resizable fonts and layout
Minimising the use of images
Print page options
Skip navigation links
Access keys

Alternative text

Images on our website have alternative text attributes, often known as alt text. This means that when an image is used on a web page to convey information its content is also described in the alt text. This means that the image can be understood by text browsers and assistive technologies such as screen readers.

Readable and resizable fonts and layout

The LowCVP website uses font sizes that you can control using your web browser.

You can change the text size in Microsoft Internet Explorer by selecting View > Text size followed by your preferred text size from 'Smallest' to 'Largest'. The default setting is 'Medium'.

You can change the text size in Mozilla Firefox by selecting View > Text size followed by 'Increase' or 'Decrease'. To return the text size to its default setting, select 'Normal'.

The website's fonts have been chosen for their legibility on computer screens.

Minimising the use of images

Live text is used rather than graphics wherever possible to reduce page download time and to increase your control over text size.

Print page options

The site has been developed so that pages can be easily printed onto a standard A4 printer. To print one of our pages click File > Print on your browser.

Skip navigation options

Using the alt+S keys will enable non visual browsers to skip reading the navigation options and take the focus to the top of the page content.

Access keys

Keyboard shortcuts are intended to help users who to use the keyboard to navigate. This website users the UK government access key system.

Below are the keyboard shortcut commands available to you: