Accessability Statement

Validation

XHTML Strict

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

This site uses cascading style sheets throughout. No tables are used for positioning, therefore the page is highly accessible to all forms of browsers and screen readers.

508 Accessability

Semantic Markup is used throughout, for the accessability of screen-readers. For instance, all headings tags are used to reflect contextual importance, and full caption, summary, thead and tbody tags are used in tables.

WCAG AAA!

This site has the highest accessability award from the WCAG, AAA, with all priority 1, 2 & 3 guidelines being met of the Web Content Accessability Guidelines

AccessKeys

People with visual or motor impairments may find navigation easier by using accesskeys. These are keyboard shortcuts for navigation.

Users with a windows operating system can use accesskeys by pressing ALT+Accesskey.
Users with a Mac operating system use accesskeys by pressing CTRL+Accesskey.

The current accesskeys used on the ellingham website are as follows:

Page	AccessKey
Home Page	0 (zero)
About Us	1
News	2
Employers	3
Programmes	4
Contact	5
Clients	6
Page Submenu	s

If you use an accesskey to navigate to a link, pressing Return/ Enter will open that link.

Resize Text

Ellingham also offer the user to adjust the size of the text, to suit their visual requirements. The accesskeys for this is:

Enlarge Text size: e
Reduce Text size: r