Accessibility Statement
This is the official accessibility statement for the Irish Club web site. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to contact our webmaster.
Standards compliance
- All pages comply with all of the automatic checkpoints in priorities 1, 2 and 3 of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
- All pages on this site validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional. This is not a judgement call; a program can determine with 100% accuracy whether a page is valid XHTML. For example, check the home page for XHTML validity..
- All pages on this site use structured semantic markup. H2 tags are used for main titles, H3 tags and lower for subtitles. For example, on this page, JAWS users can skip to the next section within the accessibility statement by pressing ALT+INSERT+4.
Browser compatibility
You can view the Irish Club website on a wide range of browsers and other internet enabled devices.
The pages have been extensively tested on the following browsers and platforms:
- Microsoft Internet Explorer v 6.0 for PCs
- Netscape Navigator v 8.0 for PCs
- Opera v 8.5 for PCs
- Firefox v 1.0.7 for PCs
- Mozilla 1.7 for PCs
- Lynx 2.8 (text only browser) for PCs
All of the above browsers display the website in identical and intended way. If you have any difficulties with the website displayed on your browser/platform please feel free to inform our webmaster. Alternatively you could download one of the above mentioned browsers, install and use it on your system. Please refer to each browser compatibility documentation before installing it on your system.
The website will be tested on Macintosh platform in very near future.
Access/Navigation
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 - Contact us
- Access key 3 - Site Map
- Access key 4 - Accessibility Statement
- Access key 5 - Chairman's Update
- Access key 6 - Newsletters
- Access key 7 - St Patrick's Ball
- Access key 8 - Events
- Access key 9 - Members' Section
- Access key 0 - Skip to main content
At the bottom of each lengthy page a "Top" of page link is provided.
All pages have rel=previous, next, up, and home links to aid navigation in text-only browsers. Netscape 6 and Mozilla users can also take advantage of this feature by selecting the View menu, Show/Hide, Site Navigation Bar, Show Only As Needed (or Show Always). Opera 8 users can activate this feature by selecting the View menu, Toolbars, Navigation bar.
Links
- Every effort is applied to ensure that links are written to make sense out of context. Also links have title attributes which describe the link in greater detail (revealed when mouse is paused over a link)
- When a link leads away from the Irish Club web site, a new browser window will open. This should be noted in the title of the link (see the above links on this page as an example)
Images
- All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics are included within stylesheets.
- Complex images (such as bar or pie charts) include LONGDESC attributes or inline descriptions to explain the significance of each image to non-visual readers.
Visual design
- This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.
- This site uses only relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified "text size" option in visual browsers.
- If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.
RSS
- RSS feed contains Chairman's Update and the latest newsletter and is available at http://www.irishclub.co.uk/rss/rss.xml
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