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Website Accessibility Statement

The Derby Portal and partner websites are committed to providing accessible websites for their visitors. This accessibility statement describes what we have done to make our website accessible.

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

  • Our aim is to meet all priority 1 requirements of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (WCAG 1.0). Meeting this standard is commonly known as Level A compliance.
    "Priority 1 - A Web content developer must satisfy this checkpoint. Otherwise, one or more groups will find it impossible to access information in the document. Satisfying this checkpoint is a basic requirement for some groups to be able to use Web documents."
  • Our aim is to meet all priority 2 requirements of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (WCAG 1.0). Meeting this standard is commonly known as Level AA compliance.
    "Priority 2 - A Web content developer should satisfy this checkpoint. Otherwise, one or more groups will find it difficult to access information in the document. Satisfying this checkpoint will remove significant barriers to accessing Web documents."
  • We also aim to meet as many priority 3 requirements of the WCAG 1.0 as possible. Meeting this standard is commonly known as Level AAA compliance.
    "Priority 3 - A Web content developer may address this checkpoint. Otherwise, one or more groups will find it somewhat difficult to access information in the document. Satisfying this checkpoint will improve access to Web documents."

Current State of Compliance

Level A Compliance

At launch (22/06/2009) we passed all of the Level A compliance checkpoints.

 

Level AA Compliance

At launch (22/06/2009) we passed all but 1 of the Level AA compliance checkpoints. This is:

  • Rule: 11.2.1 - Identify the use of one or more deprecated elements or attributes within the document.
    There is one instance of of a deprecated element in the code.  We are working to remove this.

Level AAA Compliance

At launch (22/06/2009) we passed all of the Level AAA compliance checkpoints, however two warnings were raised. These are:

  • Warning - One or more Anchor, AREA, BUTTON, INPUT, OBJECT, SELECT and TEXTAREA elements do not use the 'tabindex' attribute.
    We may consider implementing this at a later date.
  • Warning - One or more Anchor, AREA, BUTTON, INPUT, LABEL, LEGEND, and TEXTAREA elements do not use the 'accesskey' attribute.
    We may consider implementing this at a later date.

Access Keys

This site supports a subset of the UK Government's access keys standard, as follows:

S - Skip Navigation
1 - Home Page
3 - Site Map
6 - Help / Accessibility / Access Keys
8 - Terms and Conditions
9 - Contact Us / Feedback

Browsers

The Derby Portal and partner websites were designed and built to work in a range of browsers including:

  • Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8
  • FireFox 2, 3
  • Opera 8, 9
  • Safari 2, 3, 4beta
  • Google Chrome 1

Feedback

If you have any questions or feedback about the accessibility of the Derby Portal and partner websites, we would like to hear from you. You can contact the Web Team on accessibility@silktidestudios.com