Making UK Work Permits Accessible

At UK Work Permits, we wanted to make sure you can easily access all the important information about Work Permits in the UK. This is why we built the site to W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) recommendations.

The UK Work Permits website is built to some of the highest industry recognised standards for CSS, HTML and to W3C Accessible Web Design Recommendations by Hobo, (web design and seo) with the template that most pages are generated from tested extensively using the automatic web accessibility tools at Accessibility101.

  • Author - Shaun Anderson (on behalf of UK Work Permits)
  • 10 March 2007

 

Valid XHTML

Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict

As tested using independent W3C Accessibility tools to test the validity of the website XHTML.

Valid CSS

Valid CSS!

As tested using independent W3C Accessibility tools to test the validity of the website CSS .

Priority 2 WAI AA

Web Accessibility Initiative

As tested using independent Accessibility tools to test the website against the W3C WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) - WAI AA is an acceptable level of accessibility in EU and UK Law and the this website is currently aiming to achieve this standard as a minimum.

Assistance

This site is built with Web Accessibility In Mind!

If you have any problems accessing this site please contact info@uk-wp.com for assistance. We will endeavor to assist you, or make modifications to the website, if required, as we aim to make our website as accessible as possible to all our visitors.

 

UK Work Permits Website Accessibility Statement (Detail)

This is the accessibility statement for this site. If you have any questions or comments that you feel might improve the site, feel free to email me at info@uk-wp.com. This page was last updated 10 / March / 2007.

Browser Compatibility

We have tested this site on most browsers and it seems to look similar for functioning purposes on the majority of them. If you experience any difficulty with this site please let us know and we will try our best to improve your user experience on our site.

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.

There are no official access keys on this site now. We have decided to remove them for the foreseeable future until we decide the best way to implement them for our visitors.

Standards Compliance

  • Most pages on this site should be Bobby AAA approved, complying with all the Bobby guidelines. This is always a judgement call; many accessibility features can be measured, but many can not. When we say Bobby Approved we mean Bobby Approved Automatic testing. Unfortunately we do not have the resources to perform accessibility trials with live users.
  • We try to ensure at all times that all pages on this site are WCAG AAA approved, complying with all priority 1, 2, and 3 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. This is a judgement call in some cases and we would appreciate your feedback if you think we can improve upon this in any way.
  • All pages on this site validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional . This has been tested accurately using W3C Tools.
  • All pages on this site use structured semantic markup. H1 tags are used for main titles, H2 tags for subtitles.

Navigation

  • We hope that we have kept the navigation consistent in appropriate sections and easy to follow.

Links

  • 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).
  • Links are written to make sense out of context.
  • All links should open in current browser window.

Images

  • All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics include null ALT attributes.
  • We are currently reviewing the site and the possible introduction of LONGDESC attributes for some images.

Visual Design

  • This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.
  • It should be possible for you to change the text size on this site.
  • If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the content of each page should still be readable.

Accessibility References

Accessibility Software

  • JAWS, a screen reader for Windows. A time-limited, downloadable demo is available.
  • Home Page Reader, a screen reader for Windows. A downloadable demo is available.
  • Lynx, a free text-only web browser for blind users with refresh able Braille displays.
  • Links, a free text-only web browser for visual users with low bandwidth.
  • 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.

Accessibility Services

  • Bobby, a free service to analyze web pages for compliance to accessibility guidelines. A full-featured commercial version is also available.
  • 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.

Related Resources

Accessibility Books