Accessibility Information
The Creative Scotland Transition Project believes that everyone should be able to access its website regardless of any impairments or technical constraints. As well as being intuitive and easy to use, the Transition Project website combines aesthetic value with practicality. This user-focused design combines these requirements into one website solution to satisfy all of its users.
Some of the measures we have taken to ensure that this website is accessible are detailed briefly below.
Standards compliance
XHTML & CSS
The site uses valid XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS 2 throughout.
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Compliance with the RNIB’s ‘See it Right’ standards ensures that all pages within the site comply with the WAI WCAG Priority 1 and Priority 2 checkpoints. Many Priority 3 guidelines have also been followed in the creation of this website.
Accesskeys
Accesskeys allow users to navigate through the main pages and content of a site without needing to use a mouse. The accesskeys for this site are:
- S - Skip to main content
- F - Text entry field for site search
- R - RSS feed
- 0 - Accessibility Information
- 1 - Blog page
- 2 - Who page
- 3 - What page
- 4 - Timeline page
To use the accesskeys, press the “Alt” button (on Windows) or the “Ctrl” button (on a Mac) at the same time as the relevant accesskey.
Navigation and links
Navigation
The menus on the site does not use JavaScript, ensuring that all pages are navigable if it is disabled.
Skip navigation
The inclusion of the ’s’ accesskey, which is available on all pages within the web site, allows the user to skip the navigation elements and jump to the main content of the page.
Opening links
Links to other websites and downloadable files will open in the same browser window as the site.
Link context
Some browsers for example JAWS, Lynx and Opera can extract the list of links on a page and allow the user to browse the list separately. For this reason, wherever possible, links are written to make sense out of context.
Text
Use of text
Where possible, and without compromising design, text has been used instead of images on this website. Navigation, page titles, headings, links and other elements have been created using accessible html text.
Text Size
To allow full user control over how text appears on screen, this site has been created using relative text sizes.
Images
All content images include descriptive ALT text attributes.
Contrast and colour
Contrast
The site has been tested to ensure that pages provide sufficient contrast when viewed by users with colour blindness, or when viewed on a monochrome screen.
Colour
No information is conveyed through colour alone.
