Accessibility

This section describes the different ways to access the website and also the accessibility standards it complies with.

Standards compliance

Pages meet the following standards benchmarks:
Bobby AA approved, complying with all priority 1 and 2 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0.
Validates as XHTML 1.0 and CSS2.
Uses structured semantic markup.

Navigation aids

As appropriate, each page has rel=previous, next, and home links to aid navigation in text-only browsers and screen readers. Netscape 6, Mozilla, and Opera users can also take advantage of this feature by selecting the View menu, Show/Hide, Site Navigation Bar, Show Only As Needed (or Show Always).
Access to every page of the website is available through the site map.

Links

Many links have title attributes that describe the link in greater detail, unless the text of the link already fully describes the target (such as the headline of a news story).
Whenever possible, links are written to make sense when read out of context. Many browsers (such as JAWS, Home Page Reader, Lynx, and Opera) can extract the list of links on a page and allow the user to browse the list separately from the page.
Link text is never duplicated; two links with the same link text always point to the same address.
There are no javascript: pseudo-links. All links can be followed in any browser, even if scripting is turned off.
There are no links that open new windows.

Images

All content images include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics include null ALT attributes.

Visual design

This website uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.
The stylesheet uses only relative font sizes, which are compatible with the user-specified “text size” option in visual browsers. For example, in Internet Explorer you can make your default text size larger under the View menu by selecting Text Size, Larger (or Largest).
If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets, the content of each page is still readable.

Have we got it right?

We aim to make this web site as easy to use for everyone. If you do encounter any difficulties with its accessiblity, please tell us and we will work with you to resolve the problems. Please get in touch if you have any questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy.

To get in touch, please e-mail us at the following address: post@bgm.co.uk