Accessibility Statement

Positif Politics is committed to website accessibility and the open and fair access to technology by disabled people.

This site conforms to level Double-A of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (WCAG 1.0). These guidelines are developed by the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative. They are the most widely used accessibility guidelines.

If you have any comments or questions about the accessibility of this website, please contact access@positifpolitics.co.uk.

Using this site

Sighted users viewing this website with most modern browsers will see the navigation for the main areas of the website on a horizontal bar at the top of the screen and the content displayed in the centre. On the left is the sub-navigation menu relevant to the area you are currently in and links to related pages, related external sites and documents.

Users of screen readers and text only browsers will have the website rendered, top to bottom, in the following order. As will those with style sheets switched off.

Help navigation, including a link to 'skip to main content' and links to acessibility and site map
Main navigation
Page content
Sub-navigation and relevant external links

Access keys

Access Keys are keyboard shortcuts that go straight to a particular area of the website.

The following access keys are used on this site

Home = 1
Skip to main content of a page = S

Access Keys work slightly differently on PC and Mac. PC users should hold the alt key and the appropriate Access Key at the same time, then press Return. Mac users should hold the ctrl key and the appropriate Access Key at the same time.

Links

All links to documents, such as PDF and Word, will open in a new browser window. Links to external websites will open in the same browser window but will be clearly labelled as an 'external link'.

Increasing the size of the text

The text on this website is scaleable. You can increase and decrease the size using options in your browser.

For Internet Explorer select 'View' followed by 'Text Size'

For Netscape select 'View' followed by 'Text Zoom'

For Opera select 'View' followed by 'Zoom'

Standards

This site is written using standards compliant XHTML and CSS.

Where JavaScript is used, it is unobtrusive. All information and functionality are available without JavaScript.

Non-W3C technologies, such as PDF, Word Documents or Flash, are only used where they are the most appropriate format for delivery. Positif Politics will attempt to provide information in multiple formats whenever possible.

Browsers

The Positif Politics website is developed to work with a wide range of different browsers.

Fully supported browsers

The website will work perfectly and look as intended with the following browsers:

Internet Explorer 7
Internet Explorer 6
Firefox 2 and 3

Partially supported browsers

The website will work perfectly but there may be small visual differences from the 'intended' look.

Internet Explorer 5.5
Internet Explorer 5
Firefox 1
Safari 2 and 3
Opera 9.5
Konquorer
Camino

We also test other browsers whevere possible and always try to be 'backwards-compatible' if this doesn't compromise standards or accessiblity. However we do not support all the quirks and errors of legacy browsers.