Accessibility Statement

This is the official accessibility statement for Equality Matters Ltd. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to email us at info@equality-matters.co.uk.

Standards compliance

All pages on this site are WCAG 2.0 AAA approved, complying with all success criteria of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. 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 Strict. 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. H1 tags are used for main titles, H2 tags for subtitles. For example, on this page, JAWS users can skip to the next section within the accessibility statement by pressing ALT+INSERT+2.

Images

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

Accessibility references

W3 accessibility guidelines, which explains the reasons behind each guideline.
W3 accessibility techniques, which explains how to implement each guideline.
W3 accessibility checklist, a busy developer's guide to accessibility.

Accessibility software

JAWS, a screen reader for Windows. A time-limited, 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

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.

Equality Matters will be delighted to provide a specific course that is bespoke and tailored to your organisation. Our consultants will be pleased to discuss your precise requirements.

Our 'Making Difference Normal' e-learning course takes into account the Equality Act 2010 and addresses all of the nine protected characteristics contained therein.

These replace the 'six strands' and now consist of the protected characteristics of:-

Age

Disability

Gender

Race

Religion

Gender re-assignment
Pregnancy and maternity

Marriage and Civil partnership

Sexual orientation

Equality Matters is a UK member of this European Union Campaign.