Accessibility

The Care Forum is committed to providing a website that is accessible to as many users as possible - regardless of ability or browsing technology.

This site aims to achieve overall compliance with the Web Accessibility Initiative's (WAI - AAA) guidelines.

Navigation Keys

This website has been built to allow easy access using either the keyboard or mouse. Keyboard commands are as follows:

• Tab: move forwards through links/elements on any page
• Shift + Tab: move backwards through links/elements on any page
• Return: Activate selected item on page
• Backspace: Back to the previous page

For the benefit of users with screen readers a skip navigation facility has been provided on each page of The Care Forum.

Text Size

If you would like to change the text size used throughout this website, please use the Text Size buttons available on each page; these are located on the top left of each page directly below the main site navigation.

Alternatively, you can change the font size via your web browser's menu:

• Internet Explorer users: go to View > Text Size
• Opera users: go to View > Zoom
• Mozilla users: go to View > Increase Text Size

Document Viewing

Documents stored on this website are available in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) and Microsoft Word Document Format (DOC). These formats can be viewed using the following free software:

PDF: Adobe Acrobat Reader

DOC: Word viewer 2003

Internal and External Sites

All links found on pages (both internal and external pages) of this website will open in the same window.

W3C - Validation

This website is built using code compliant with World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards for XHTML and Cascading Style Sheets.

With style sheets disabled each page remains usable.

The XHTML used to build this site is valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional. This means that a formal validation of the pages on this site was successfully performed.

The Style sheet used validates as CSS v2