Accessibility
This page helps to explain our Access Key shortcuts and gives other general guidance on accessibility such as browser compatability.
Access keys
In order to increase the accessibility of this site, we have provided a number of Access keys. These are keyboard shortcuts providing an alternative form of navigation.
On this site the following access keys are in use:
1 - Homepage
3 - Site map
4 - Search
6 - Help
8 - Terms & conditions
9 - Contact us
0 - Access key details
To use all access keys (excluding number 4 'search'):
Windows users: press the 'Alt key' + access key number, and then ENTER
Mac users: press the 'Ctrl key' + access key number
To search using the access keys:
Windows users: press 'Alt+4', type in your search term and press ENTER
Mac users: press 'Ctrl+4', type in your search term and press ENTER
Standards compliance
All pages on the this website conform to conformance level A of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, including Priority 1 checkpoint defined in the Guidelines.
All pages of this website conform strictly to XHTML1.0
Further navigation aids
- A crumb trail at the top of the page on all archive pages is included to indicate which section of the site you are in.
- All listing pages, for example news have previous, next and home links to aid navigation in screen readers and text-only browsers.
- A search dialogue box is included on all pages. This can also be accessed using access key 4 (see above).
Images
All content images used on this site include descriptive ALT attributes. Graphics of a purely decorative nature include null ALT attributes.
Links
- No links that open new windows without warning are included.
- Links are written to be descriptive of their target whenever possible. Where this is not possible, the link 'title' attribute has been used to describe the target.
- Link text is never duplicated, so two links with the same link text always take you to the same destination.
- There are no 'JavaScript:' pseudo-links included on this site. All links can be followed in any browser, (even if scripting has been disabled).
Visual design - Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are used on this site for visual layout.
- A special CSS is used for printing pages (pages can be displayed in a printer friendly format - see help on printing). If your browser does not support CSS you will still be able to view this site.
- A text resizing feature is available on Internet Explorer. To access this: go to 'View' menu, click 'Text Size', and then chose the desired size).
- All the pages have been optimized as follows: the main content comes first followed by the various navigation elements. This makes it easier for screen reader users to get to the relevant information as quickly as possible.
Browser compatibility
The HTA website has been created to be compatible with HTML versions 1,2,3, 4 and X HTML. This means that you should be able to view the pages accurately on all common browsers. There are three levels of browser that we support
Primary browser: IE6.0 on PC and Safari and Firefox on Mac.
Secondary browsers: IE5.5 and IE5.0 on PC
Tertiary browsers: Opera, Mozilla
This web ite has been tested using the above browsers. Users viewing this web site in browsers from the tertiary group may experience some degradation and we recommend that you upgrade to one in the secondary or primary group.
If you have any comments or queries about the accessibility of this site, please contact website@hta.gov.uk
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