Accessibility statement
Therapy Learning is committed to making the content of our site as accessible as possible and welcomes your feedback. This page lists the features used to facilitate the accessibility, compatibility and interoperability of the content of the Therapy Learning Web site.
Standards compliance
All areas of the site comply with Level-AA of the World Wide Web Consortium Web Accessibility Initiative Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0. The Therapy Learning Web site follows the W3C recommendations for XHTML 1.0 and CSS 2. In both cases (XHTML and CSS) the markup of all pages is valid.
Visual design and text resizing
The Therapy Learning Web site uses CSS for visual layout and design, avoiding HTML tables and frames which can impede accessibility. A dedicated print style sheet is used to optimize each page for printing.
Font sizes defined relatively, which means that they are determined by the user’s preferences. Text can be resized using the browser’s mechanism (View→Text Size| View→Text Zoom | View→Zoom | Ctrl++/Ctrl+-). If you have a mouse wheel, you can also hold down the Ctrl key and rotate the mouse wheel to make the text larger and smaller.
A Web standards compliant visual browser will display the pages as they were intended, though all the content is accessible using any browser or Internet device.
Document structure and markup
The content of each page is contained in structural XHTML. Logically ordered documents make sense when read (by text-only browsers, for instance) in a linear fashion. Markup structured in this way has the advantage of providing some Web devices with a quick summary of the content of a page, by listing titles, headings and links, for example. Structural elements provide assistive technologies (especially screen readers) with the opportunity to add meaning to the content of a page.
Navigation aids
For users of screen readers and other serial browsers, ‘skip to navigation’ links are provided to allow visitors to bypass the main content and go directly to the navigation options of each page.
Scripting
Where DOM scripting is used to add interactivity to a page, it is added unobtrusively to ensure that functionality or content is still available to users with JavaScript disabled.
Images
All non-background images used on the site have alternative text that will appear in browsers that do not support images or that is read out by screen readers.
Forms
Interactive forms on the site make use of several features to improve accessibility. These include labelling of form elements and grouping of related form elements.