
Accessibility
This is the official accessibility statement for UCP of Greater Birmingham. If you have any questions or comments, please contact us. This policy applies only to Web pages on the UCP of Greater Birmingham web site (URLs starting http://www.ucpbham.com) that make use of standard templates (i.e. pages that have the same structure, navigation and design as this one).
Access Keys
Most browsers support jumping to specific links by typing keys defined on the Web site. On Internet Explorer in Windows, you can press ALT + an access key; on Macintosh, you can press Control + an access key.
All pages on this site use the following access keys for common tasks:
- Access Key S: Skip directly to content
- Access Key 1: Home
- Access Key 0: Accessibility statement
Standards Compliance
As much as possible, we have tried to ensure that:
- All pages on this site should comply with all level 3 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
- All pages on this site should validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
- All pages on this site use structured semantic markup. h1 tags are used for main titles, h2 tags for subtitles (and so on).
Images and Visual Design
- All content images used in this site should include descriptive alt tags. Purely decorative graphics include null alt tags.
- Complex images may include longdesc tags or descriptions to explain the significance of each image to non-visual readers.
- This site primarily uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.
- This site uses only relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified “text size” option in Web browsers.
- If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the content on each page should still be readable.
Accessibility References & Software
- W3 accessibility guidelines – explains the reason behind each guideline.
- W3 accessibility techniques – explains how to implement each guideline.
- W3 accessibility checklist – a busy developer’s guide to accessibility.
- JAWS – a screen reader for Windows. A time-limited, downloadable demo is available.
- Lynx – a free text-only web browser for blind users with refreshable Braille displays.
Accessibility Services
- HTML Validator – a free service for checking that web pages conform to published HTML standards.
- Web Page Backward Compatibility Viewer – a tool for viewing your web pages without a variety of modern browser features.
- Lynx Viewer – a free service for viewing what your web pages would look like in Lynx.
