Website Design

What is accessibility?

An accessible website is one that can be used by anyone. This can be from superman to people with partial sightedness/blindness and those that find it difficult to use a mouse. About 10% of internet users have visual or motor impairments, and so find it difficult to use websites that aren't designed with their needs in mind.

What does this mean?

Websites that aren't accessible close out a lot of the web to some people with disabilites, which not only limits their interaction with the web, but can potentially be losing you custom.

How can this be avoided?

My websites are designed to the Web Accessibility Initiative's (WAI) guidelines to make them accessible to as much of the population as possible. You can read more on the guidelines for accessibility here.

Accessibility features on this site

Access Keys

You can navigate this site by using access keys. Windows users can press 'Alt' then the access key, Mac users press 'Control' then the access key. (Internet Explorer users need to then press enter.)

This website uses the following access keys:

• M: Site map
• 0: Accessibility
• 1: Home
• 2: Profile
• 3: Services
• 4: Portfolio
• 5: Contact

If any of these access keys interfere with your browsers default access keys, press your control key and the relevant access key seperately.

Page Structure
This site is built using valid xhtml/css and content is correctly structured using headings and paragraphs. The site will still work as intended with style sheets and images disabled.

Text Size
Text size on this site is designed to be resized by all browsers including Internet Explorer (if you still use Internet Explorer please consider upgrading to FireFox). There is an option for changing text size under the 'view' menu of your browser.