Accessibility
Website Accessibility Statement
This is the official accessibility statement for West Way. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to email Customer Services
Standards compliance
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All pages on this site are WCAG A approved, complying with all priority 1 and most of priority 2 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
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Most pages on this site validate as HTML 4.0 Transitional. A program can determine with 100 per cent accuracy whether a document is valid XHTML.
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Pages on this site use Valid CSS. A program can determine with 100 per cent accuracy whether a stylesheet is valid CSS.
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All pages on this site use structured semantic markup. H1 tags are used for main titles, H2 tags for subtitles.
Browser text-sizing tool
Most popular browsers feature a text resizing tool in the toolbar.
With this tool you can resize text on screen to a level you feel comfortable with. Just click on the icon, and select a new size.
This tool is also available in the menu of various browsers as follows:
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Internet Explorer 5, 5.5, 6, 7 (PC): View > Text Size
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Firefox, Netscape 8: View > Text Size
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Opera: View > Zoom
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Netscape 6, 7, Mozilla: View > Text Zoom
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Safari (Mac): View > Make Text Bigger
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Internet Explorer 5 (Mac): View > Text Zoom
Tab key
You can also use the Tab key on your keyboard to move between links on a page. A single press of Tab high-lights the next link, Shift+Tab high-lights the previous link.
Navigation aids
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The tips are cross-referenced in several ways. You can browse the tips by person, by disability, by design principle, by assistive technology and by publishing tool.
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The homepage and all other channel pages include a quick search box.
Links
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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)
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Links are written to make sense out of context
Images
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Most content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics include null ALT attributes.
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Complex images include TITLE attributes or inline descriptions to explain the significance of each image to non-visual readers
Visual design
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This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout
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This site uses only relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified "text size" option in visual browsers
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If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets, the content of each page is still readable