POOLE & DORSET ADVENTURE CENTRE
- Quick Links
- What Is Web Accessibility?
- Our Current Status
- Protocols In Place
- Cross Browser & Media Support
- How You Can Help
- Future Plans
What Is Web Accessibility?
The World Wide Web Consortium has the following definition."Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can use the Web. More specifically, web accessibility means that people with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with the Web, and that they can contribute to the Web. Web accessibility also benefits others, including older people with changing abilities due to aging."
Increasingly, it also includes the ability of a web site to render itself consistently across different browsers and successfully across various media. For more information on web accessibility go to the Web Accessibility Initiative pages at www.w3.org/WAI.
Our Current Status
We are working towards a fully accessible web site, but we would be the first to admit that we are a long way short of this goal in this, the first, release.However, at this time, we are please to confirm the following status on all pages:
At this time the W3C have yet to finalise their paper on WCAG 2.0. However, we have tested our site using the ATRC Web Accessibility Checker and are pleased to confirm that we have a Level 2 Conditional Pass against the proposed WCAG 2.0 proposals.
Protocols In Place
In this release, r.1.0, we have not yet established full accessibility protocols to include elements such as tab indexing etc. However, these will be included in the second release, later this year.In the meantime, all pages include a "Skip to content" above the header image, and pages which contain a large amount of text content have a "Go large" link, which allows the content to be viewed in a larger size and in a larger window.
Cross Browser & Media Support
It is recommended that to get the most out of the Internet and to ensure that websites developed in the latest technology are viewable, you upgrade your browser (usually free) to the latest version.This web site renders consistently across the following browsers.
- Internet Explorer 7 (PC)
- Mozilla Firefox 2 (PC)
- Opera 9 (PC)
- Safari 2 (Mac)
It will also render well on Internet Explorer 6, but the layout can suffer when the screen size is reduced.
It does not render well on Opera 7 and older versions, or on the Netscape browser. These issues will be addressed in the next release.
This release, r.1.0, of www.dorsetadventure.co.uk has been developed in CSS for viewing on desktop computer screens and laptops. Other media will be included in later releases.
How You Can Help
If you are having a specific problem with the functionality of this web site, or you are having difficulty viewing the content, please let us know, so that we may address the problem in a later release, and provide support in the interim.Future Plans
We are working towards WCAG 2.0 Level 3 compliancy for r.2.0. This release will also include a version of the site for printed media, and will address known issues with cross browser and older browser compatibility.R.3.0 will add support for handheld media, along with any remaining requirements and recommendations arising from WCAG 2.0.
Mobile support will be added in R.4.0.
