The voice of refugees and asylum seekers in the Wakefield District

Accessibility Statement

www.rasa-advocacy.org.uk

RASA aims to ensure all services provided adhere to disability law (England) and accessibility guidelines. This website has been compiled with accessibility as the priority feature. This page describes the general status of the accessibility of this site. If, however, you do have any problems with any part of this Web site please contact us with details of the problem by Emailing us at;

advocacy@rasa-advocacy.org.uk

Access keys

Most browsers support jumping to specific links by typing keys defined on the web site. On Windows, you can press ALT + an access key; on Macintosh, you can press Control + an access key.

The following access keys apply to all A Touch of Reiki Web site pages:

Access key 1 Home
Access key 2 What We Do
Access key 3 People We Have Helped
Access key 4 News and Events
Access key 5 Partners
Access key 6 About RASA
Access key 7 Volunteering
Access key 8 Contact Us
Access key a Accessibility Statement
Access key p Privacy Statement
Access Key t Terms of Use

Standards compliance

  1. All pages on this site are WAI AA approved , complying with all priority 1 and 2 guidelines of the W3 Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.This is always a judgement call; many accessibility features can be measured, but many can not. We have reviewed all the guidelines and believe that all these pages are in compliance.
  2. All pages on this site validate as XHTML 1.1. This is not a judgement call; a program can determine with 100% accuracy whether a page is valid XHTML.
  3. All pages on this site have Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) incorpotated into them. No external CSS is used. All CSS on this site have been validated by the W3C CSS Validator.
  4. All pages on this site use structured semantic markup. H1 tags are used for the lead title, H2 tags are used for main titles, H3 tags for subtitles.

Links

  1. Many links have title attributes which describe the link in greater detail, unless the text of the link already fully describes the target (such as the headline of an article).
  2. Whever possible, links are written to make sense out of context. Many browsers (such as JAWS, Home Page Reader, Lynx, and Opera) can extract the list of links on a page and allow the user to browse the list, separately from the page.
  3. Link text is never duplicated; two links with the same link text always point to the same address.
  4. There are no " javascript: " pseudo-links. All links can be followed in any browser, even if scripting is turned off.
  5. There are no links that open new windows without warning.

Images

  1. All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics include null ALT attributes.
  2. Complex images include LONGDESC attributes or inline descriptions to explain the significance of each image to non-visual readers.

Visual design

Cascading style sheets are used for visual layout.

  1. Internet Explorer has a limited text resizing feature ("View" menu, "Text Size"), but it only works with relative font sizes. A special stylesheet that uses relative font sizes is automatically served to visitors using Internet Explorer.
  2. If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.

Accessibility references

  1. W3C accessibility guidelines , which explains the reasons behind each guideline.
  2. W3 accessibility techniques , which explains how to implement each guideline.
  3. W3 accessibility checklist , a busy developer's guide to accessibility.

Accessibility software

  1. JAWS , a screen reader for Windows. A time-limited, downloadable demo is available.
  2. Home Page Reader , a screen reader for Windows. A downloadable demo is available.
  3. Lynx , a free text-only web browser for blind users with refreshable Braille displays.
  4. Links , a free text-only web browser for visual users with low bandwidth.
  5. Opera , a visual browser with many accessibility-related features, including text zooming, user stylesheets, image toggle. A free downloadable version is available. Compatible with Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and several other operating systems.
  6. AIS, a free Web Accessibility Toolbar for Internet Explorer including text sizing, css options, and other tools.

Accessibility services

  1. Bobby , a free service to analyze web pages for compliance to accessibility guidelines. A full-featured commercial version is also available.
  2. HTML Validator , a free service for checking that web pages conform to published HTML standards.
  3. Web Page Backward Compatibility Viewer , a tool for viewing your web pages without a variety of modern browser features.
  4. Lynx Viewer , a free service for viewing what your web pages would look like in Lynx.

Safe Viewing

Each page of this Web site is asserted to be safe for all ages to view. Please see our Internet Content Rating Association assertations by clicking the ICRA link image and the SafeSurf declaration by clicking the SafeSurf link image below.

 

Level Double-A conformance icon, W3C-WAI Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0Valid XHTML 1.1 Valid CSS! Backward Compatibility Approved (external link)Internet Content Rating Association (external link) Safe Surf Rated (external link)

 

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