Accessibility Statement
More information about the accessibility features of this website and how to use them
The People’s Republic of South Devon takes accessibility seriously and has taken as many steps as possible to ensure that this website is as accessible to as many people as possible. Features that have been included to enhance accessibility are listed below.
Getting to Information quickly has been made easier by the inclusion of a skip navigation link on each page which will allow you to skip past the menu on each page and access the main content.
Getting aroung the site without a mouse. In order to navigate through each page try using your tab keys followed by the return key and the up and down arrow keys will help with scrolling. Some browsers support jumping to specific links by typing keys defined on the web site. These keyboard shortcuts are called Access Keys. On Windows, you can press ALT + an access key; on Macintosh, you can press Control + an access key. The following access keys available to navigate through the whole site.
| Page | accesskey |
|---|---|
| Accessibility | 0 |
| Home page | 1 |
| Skip Navigation | 2 |
| About | 3 |
| Archives | 4 |
| Gallery | 5 |
| Downloads | 6 |
| Jobs | 7 |
| Sponsors | 8 |
| Contact | 9 |
| Reset a form | R |
| Submit a form | S |
Standards Compliance. All pages on the The Peoples Republic of South Devon website where possible are Bobby AAA approved, complying with all relevant priority 1, 2, and 3 guidelines of the W3 Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. This website has been built using the current web standards, XHTML 1.0 strict and CSS in order to aid usablity and accessibility. Every effort has been made to validate the code and this site has been tested to ensure accessibility in a wide range of browsers.
Links. All links throughout the The Peoples Republic of South Devon website have title attributes which describe the link in greater detail and always make sense out of context. We try to ensure that link text is not duplicated and that there are no javascript “pseudo-links” (All links can be followed by the browser) other than the text size icons. There are also no links which open new windows without warning.
Images. All images have descriptive ALT tags to describe the image and if necesary with photographic images a LONGDESC tag is used to further explain what is happening in the image.
Further Information. In order to learn more about accessibility the following link provide more information about this subject or provide products and services that help with accessible browsing.
