Accessibility Features
We have made the best attempt to make this website accessible to very high standards using the W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) as a reference. Please contact the webmaster if you spot any important oversights.
Keyboard Shortcuts / Access Keys
Most browsers support keyboard shortcuts, but for those who do not use a mouse to navigate, they are invaluable. On IZAUK, the most important Access Keys are assigned to numbers (rather than letters) which are less likely to be pre-assigned in screen-reading software such as 'JAWS'. This website uses the following access keys:
- Key
- Key Target
- 1
- Home Page
- 2
- Skip Navigation
- 3
- Groups & Dojos Page
- 4
- Friends of IZAUK Page
- 5
- Calendar of Events Page
- 6
- About Zen & Zazen Page
- 7
- About Sesshins & Zen Days Page
- 8
- Fund Raising Page
- 9
- Contact Page
- 0
- Access Key Details and Accessibility Features Page
- a
- Articles Page
- b
- Links Page
- c
- Skip Content and Go to Navigation
- d
- Site Map Page
- e
- Acknowledgements Page
Alt and Title
Many links have additional information that you can get when you hover over them, this additional information will let you know when the link is external to this website. Any purely graphical element on this website has clear ALT text associated with it. There are no graphical elements on this website that display information which is not also available in text form.
Text & Style Sheets
Links are distinguished with an underline, so navigation does not rely on colour perception. Quotations are marked ask such using <blockquote> and <q> tags semantically. Tables, are almost never used in this site, but are appropriately marked up whereused. Similarly, there is almost no javascript used on this website. There are a few instances where javascript is used to do a client-side form validation, but in those cases, a server side validation also exists.
Style Sheets have been used to control layout and presentation. For browsers that do not support style sheets, pages are structured so that the content makes sense without them and there are links embedded in the page allowing screen reader users to skip to and over content and navigation
The Future
Obviously, there are many more ways that this site can be made accessible, and hopefully those things will evolve from the site as it develops. The next thing on the list is to make alternate style sheets available such as large type and high contrast.