ACCESSIBILITY
We have designed this website to be as accessible as possible for the most used platforms, browsers and screen readers. You may wish to alter the way the website looks using your web browser settings.
The website is AA compliant with the World Wide Web Consortium`s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (W3C WCAG). All website features have been built using Priority 3 checkpoints as described in the Disability Discrimination Act.
Changing the text size
To change the font using the browser menu, follow these instructions:
- Internet Explorer, select Text Size from the View menu. Then choose the preferred size
- Mozilla FireFox, select Text Size from the View menu. Then choose the preferred size
- Netscape Navigator, select Text Zoom from the View menu. Then choose the preferred size
- Opera, select Zoom from the View menu
Access keys
Access keys let you navigate around Ivy House Design School website without using your mouse. Different sections of the website are available via the use of access keys. On Windows, you can press Alt plus an access key and press Return key; on Mac, you can press Control plus an access key.
The website sections available using access keys are as follows:
- 0 - Access keys
- H - Home page
- C - Courses
- E - Enrolment
- P - Prices
- A - Accommodation
- L - Location
- B - Bath
- U - About us
- I - Contact us
- S - Site map
- T - Terms and conditions
Standards compliance
- All pages on this site use structured semantic markup. H1 tags are used for main titles, H2 tags for subtitles
- All pages on this site are validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional
- All pages on this site are Bobby AAA approved
- All pages on this site are WCAG AAA approved, complying wih the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
Visual design
- This website uses only relative font sizes. The font size could be increased or decreased using the browser menu
- The website uses cascading style sheets for visual layout. Tables are not used for visual layout
- The website is using separate style sheets optimised for printing
- If the device used is not supporting cascading style sheets, the content will be still visible as a plain text
Images
- All images used in this website include descriptive ALT attributes to explain the significance of each image to non-visual readers
Links
- Most of the links have title attributes which describe the link in greater detail
- Links are written to makes sense out of context
How to use access keys in your Browser
- Internet Explorer 4 on Windows - Hold down the ALT key and press the number of the access key
- Internet Explorer 4.5 on Mac - Access keys are not supported
- Internet Explorer 5+ on Mac - Hold down the CTRL key and press the number of the access key
- Internet Explorer 5+ on Windows - Hold down the ALT key, press the number of the access key, release both keys and press the return key
- Netscape 6 - Access keys are not supported
- Netscape 7 on Windows - Hold down the ALT key and press the number of the access key
- Firefox, Mozilla on Windows - Hold down the ALT key and press the number of the access key
- Firefox, Mozilla on Mac - Hold down the CTRL key and press the number of the access key
- Opera - Hold down the Shift key and press Escape, release both keys, then press the number of the access key
