Accessibility 

Compliance

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international body which sets standards across the web, the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) are part of the W3C and have created guidelines to ensure that websites are accessible to a wide range of people using a variety of technologies and with varying abilities. These guidelines are called the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), version 1.0. There are three priorities or levels of accessibility a website can reach, they could be summarised as:
  • Single-A (what you must do);
  • Double-A (what you should do); and
  • Triple-A (what you may do).
 
ViSTAjobs website was built, balancing the WCAG 1.0 guidelines (which are due to be update towards the end of 07), with the Royal National Institute for the Blind’s, see it right guidelines for website accessibility.
The site complies with all the checkpoints required to meet Priority 1 and 2 of the WAI guidelines and most of the checkpoints for Priority 3.
Job posts submitted to the site are regularly checked to ensure the standards are adhered to and maintained.  Should you have difficulty in accessing this website please contact the website developers: SensoryStore

 Accessibility tips for visitors

  • A site-map is available to aid navigation.
  • Resizing Text in Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox: view menu/text size
  • Multi-drop down menu’s are operational on some pages.To access using keyboard:
Internet Explorer 6 and 7: Once you've tabbed to the multi drop down menu, press shift and F8 (just momentary, not  held down).  Then navigate up and down with cursors and hit space to select.

Mozilla Firefox: Hold down ctrl, use the cursor up/down to navigate, and hit space (whilst still holding down ctrl) to select.

If you would like to know more about adapting your computer so it is more comfortable to use visit AbilityNet's My Computer, My Way website.



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