Accessibility

This is the official accessibility statement for SL Sewing & Embroidery Machines website. If you have any questions or comments, please email us at info@slmaintenance.co.uk.

Standards compliance

  • As best we can determine, all pages on this site are Bobby AAA approved, complying with all the Bobby guidelines. This is always a judgement call; many accessibility features can be measured, but many can not. We have reviewed all the guidelines and believe that all these pages are in compliance.
  • As best we can determine, all pages on this site are WCAG AAA approved, complying wih all priority 1, 2, and 3 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Again, this is a judgement call; many guidelines are intentionally vague and can not be tested automatically. We have reviewed all the guidelines and believe that all these pages are in compliance.
  • 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.
  • All pages on this site use structured semantic markup. H1 tags are used for main titles, H4 tags for subtitles.

<h4>Navigation aids </h4> <ol> <li>All pages have up, skip navigation and home links to aid navigation in text-only browsers.</li> <!– <li>All pages include a search box and links to an advanced search (access key A).</li> </ol>

Links

  • Many links have title attributes which describe the link in greater detail, unless the text of the link already fully describes the target (such as the headline of an article).
  • Links are clearly written to make sense out of context.
  • Any link which opens in a new window using JavaScript also has a none JavaScript alternative.

Images

  • All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics include null ALT attributes.

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.
  • This site is useable on every browsing device including WebTV, PDAs, Smartphones and older computers.
  • <li>Each page includes the functionality to increase / decrease the text size.</li> <li>Each page can be viewed in a ‘high contrast’ mode for the visually impaired. </li>

Accessibility references

Accessibility software

  • JAWS , a screen reader for Windows. A time-limited, downloadable demo is available.
  • Home Page Reader , a screen reader for Windows. A downloadable demo is available.
  • Lynx , a free text-only web browser for blind users with refreshable Braille displays.
  • Links , a free text-only web browser for visual users with low bandwidth.
  • Opera , a visual browser with many accessibility-related features, including text zooming, user stylesheets, image toggle. A free downloadable version is available. Compatible with Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and several other operating systems.

Accessibility services

  • Bobby , a free service to analyze web pages for compliance to accessibility guidelines. A full-featured commercial version is also available.
  • HTML Validator , a free service for checking that web pages conform to published HTML standards.
  • Web Page Backward Compatibility Viewer , a tool for viewing your web pages without a variety of modern browser features.
  • Lynx Viewer , a free service for viewing what your web pages would look like in Lynx.

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