Accessibility Statement
This website aims to offer a high level of accessibility for all users, striving to achieve the "AA" standard of the WCAG Guidelines. Every effort has been made to provide accessibility to all groups of users, including the following:
- Users with visual impairments
- Users with hearing impairments
- Users who navigate websites using a keyboard rather than a mouse
- Users who navigate websites using adaptive technologies
- Users with cognitive impairments
- Users with non-standard screens sizes or resolutions (small or large)
- Users who prefer use browsers other than Internet Explorer (Firefox, Opera, Netscape, etc)
If you are aware of any accessibility problems with our website, please contact us and we will make every effort to resolve the issue as soon as possible.
Key Accessibility Features
Resizeable Text
Our design enables users to resize text to suit different vision requirements, without "breaking" the structure of the website. This is to benefit users with low vision, working on the same principles as "large print" books.
Most popular browsers provide functions to enable this:
- Internet Explorer
View > Text Size > Select Preferred size - Firefox
To increase text : CTRL and +
To decrease text : CTRL and - - Opera (Version 8+)
To increase text : SHIFT and +
To decrease text : SHIFT and -
Fluid Page Design
Our fluid design expands or contracts to cater for the variety of ways that individuals view web pages. It adapts to varieties in screen resolutions and browser window sizes, without requiring the users to scroll horizontally, and without leaving large columns of empty space either side of the website.
Alternative Text
Whenever images are used, a text alternative is also provided. This allows users who do not see images (e.g. Totally blind users, users with text-only browsers, or users who have disabled images on order to reduce load times) to fully access all content.
Technical Standards
The First Rate training website seeks to adhere to the following technical web design standards in order to achieve its accessibility aims.
- Conformance to the "AA" standard of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
- Conformance to XHTML 1.0 Strict coding standards
- A separation of content and presentation via CSS
- Accurate cross-browser rendering, including the following:
Internet Explorer 5.0 and higher
Firefox 1.0 and higher
Opera 7.0 and higher
Netscape Navigator 7.0 and higher
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