Morton Michel's Website Designed to be Accessible

Accessibility

Using our website

We recognise the importance of providing a website that is accessible by all users. MORTON MICHEL is committed to providing websites that are accessible to as many internet users as possible. Here at MORTON MICHEL , we view accessibility as an integral and essential aspect of the design and build of our websites rather than as an add-on.

We understand that many potential and existing visitors may have sight problems or other disabilities, and that we need to remove obstacles preventing you from engaging with us online.

Accessibility

To ensure we are as accessible as possible our website adheres to the guidelines laid out by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The code used for this site contains Valid HTML and Valid CSS. Which should mean that website should work on all browsers and all platforms.

Accessibility features

We have introduced the following features to ensure the best use of our site by all of our users.

Headings and navigation menus

HTML heading tags are used to convey document structure. H1 tags are used for main titles, H2 tags for subtitles etc.

Navigation menus are marked up as HTML lists. This ensures that the number of links in the list is read out at the start and it can be skipped easily.

Images

All images used in this site include descriptive alt tag attributes.

Colours

We have taken care to ensure that the site's font and background colour combinations contrast significantly and are effective in ensuring information is still clear when viewed in different colour combinations.

If you wish to override the site's colours, you can do this by changing your browser settings to your own preference.

Stylesheets

This site uses cascading style sheets for all visual layout. If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the use of structured semantic mark up ensures that the content of each page is still readable and clearly structured.

You can apply your own stylesheet onto this website by;

Internet Explorer;
- select Tools, then Internet Options, then Accessibility,
- next click on any or all 3 checkboxes to ignore colours, font styles or font sizes,
- in the same window you can change your style sheet by clicking the checkbox that says, 'format document using my style sheet' then browse to your style sheet and click OK.
In Netscape;
- select Edit, then Preferences and then Appearance,
- you will be given the choice to specify your own colours and font

Forms and fields

All forms fields follow a logical tab sequence to ensure easy navigation.

Most form fields also have ‘label’ and ‘id’ attributes to explicitly associate the form field with its label to allow for easy entry of data.

JavaScript

The use of Java script has been kept to an absolute minimum. Where it is used then all pages and process are still accessible should Javascript be turned off.

Useful links:

If you would like to know more about accessibility and the Internet, you may be interested in the following websites:

RNIB website - The Royal National Institute for the Blind
www.w3.org/WAI - W3C accessibility guidelines
www.bcab.org.uk - British Computer Association of the Blind
www.bbc.co.uk/education/betsie - BBC web pages specially constructed to improve clarity for visually impaired users. The website also includes other useful links
http://www.disability.gov.uk/dda/ - The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA)
JAWS - a screen reader for use with 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.