Accessibility Statement
This is the official accessibility statement for www.epsilis.co.uk. It is our intention that all pages on this site are accessible to all and that all pages are deemed accessible to the highest standards defined. Many standards are intentionally vague and are subject to individual judgement. Some can be automatically tested. We have run a variety of commonly accepted standard automated tests and have manually reviewed all pages. We believe all pages are in full compliance with all available accessibility standards and guidelines from W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
Should you feel that any aspect of the site does not fulfil these objectives or gives you any difficulty please let us know and we will do our best to rectify the problem immediately. Feel free to email us at enquiries@epsilis.co.uk
Accessibility measures included:
Access keys:
Most browsers support jumping to specific links by typing keys defined on the web site. On Windows, you can press ALT + an access key; on Macintosh, you can press Control + an access key.
All pages on this site define the following access keys:
Access key 1 - Home page
Access key 2 – About us
Access Key 3 - Services
Access key 4 - Portfolio
Access key 5 – Contact us
Access key 6 – Site map
Standards compliance:
All pages on this site are W3C Web Accessibility Initiative AAA approved, complying with all priority 1, 2, and 3 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
All pages on this site are Section 508 approved, complying with all of the U.S. Federal Government Section 508 Guidelines.
All pages on this site validate as xhtml 1.0 transitional.
All pages on this site use structured semantic markup.
Navigation aids:
Tab indexes are set such that the content links are presented first (after breadcrumb navigation) in the sequence they appear on the page. (Where the pages are presented with more than one content column, the main content column comes first followed by the secondary content column.) Followed by high level navigation, then followed by page footer links.
Links in the content show up as default link colours. They have no behaviours attached to them.
Navigation items have background changes to highlight links and current page. Breadcrumb navigation is provided on sub pages.
A text based site map showing a link to every page on the web site is provided.
Links are written to make sense out of context.
Links to external web sites open up a new browser window where this is supported by the browser otherwise the same browser window is used.
This web site can be navigated without the use of a mouse.
Images:
All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics include null ALT attributes.
All images used to convey information have alternative text descriptions.
Visual design:
Content has been separated from visual design and cascading style sheets (CSS) are used for visual layout.
Content is listed above navigation within the code to assist text based browsers and assistive technologies.
This web site features alternative visual designs which the visitor is free to choose the option they prefer by ‘Choosing a style’ from the bottom of the high level navigation bar. Most styles are intended to be fully accessible.
Only relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified "text size" option in visual browsers are used.
If your browser or browsing device does not support style sheets at all, the content of each page is still readable. In addition a ‘text only’ style is available under the style options in ‘Choosing a style’ from the bottom of the high level navigation bar.
Tests:
Tested against Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
and U.S. Section 508 Guidelines
Tested against WCAG Priority 1,2,3 and Section 508
Tested by the W3C Markup Validation Service
