Aidapt Site Accessibility & Usability | Aidapt Mobility Aids & Independent Living Solutions

An accessible website is one that is available to and usable by people of all abilities and disabilities.

Our Commitment to Accessibility

We would like all our website visitors to have equal access to the information and functions on the Aidapt website, regardless of physical restrictions or limitations.

Coding

The Aidapt website has been developed to best practice coding conventions, based on guidelines stipulated by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (WCAG 1.0).

The website validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional and the CSS is valid CSS 2.1. This is why we are able to display the following logos at the bottom of each page:

The website complies with the regulations of the report at the level of AA, and we are always looking to improve this self-assessed rating where possible.

Browsers

The Aidapt website has been tested for compatibility with the following browsers:

Internet Explorer (Windows) v8.0, v7.0 and v6.0
Firefox (Windows and Mac) v3.0 - v3.6
Safari (Mac) v4.0
Google Chrome (Windows) v1.0 - v5.0

What is a Usable Website?

Web usability is seen by many as making web sites easy to use for all visitors, without requiring any specialized training.

Visitors to a usable website should be able to relate actions required to navigate and use the website with 'real world' actions, for example, pressing a button leads to an expected result or action.

Our aim has been to make the Aidapt website usable in the following ways:

Presenting information to our visitors in a 'clear and concise way'.
Providing correct and obvious choices to our visitors.
Removing ambiguity about consequences of actions on the website, e.g. clicking on delete/submit/buy.
Putting the most important thing in the right place on the web pages.

"The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect."

Tim Berners-Lee,
W3C Director and inventor of the World Wide Web

Text size and Page Zoom

You can change the text size of the website, to make it either larger or smaller, using your browser settings. Some browsers will allow you to magnify the whole page. Follow the instructions below for your browser:

Internet Explorer (Text Size)

Click View to open the View menu (or press Alt and V)
Select the Text Size option (or press X to select)
Choose your preferred text size (with your mouse or up and down arrow keys on your keyboard)
Click to select your chosen size (or press Enter)
The text size should increase/decrease as per your choice

Internet Explorer (Page Zoom)

Hold the Control key down and press + to zoom in, until you're happy with the size of the page
Hold the Control key down and press - to zoom out (or hold Control and 0 to return to the standard setting)

Firefox (Text Size)

Click View to open the View menu
Select Text Size
Select Increase or Decrease
The text size should increase/decrease as per your choice

Firefox (Page Zoom)

To zoom in on the page hold the Control key down and press + until you're happy with the size of the page
Zoom out by holding the Control key down and pressing -, or hold Control and 0 to get back to your standard setting

Safari (Text Size)

In Safari, click View to open the View menu
Click on Make Text Bigger or Make Text Smaller
Or select Apple and + (plus) or Apple and - (minus) if you prefer to use keyboard shortcuts
The text size should increase/decrease as per your choice

Windows

Some versions of Windows and Mac OS have Accessibility options to help you change text size and other features, such as text readers, custom shortcut keys, etc.

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