Harlaxton College is committed to producing websites and web resources that can be accessed by all users. This page describes some of the features that have been incorporated into this site.

We are working hard to ensure that all publicly available pages produced on Harlaxton College's website will conform to the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Double-A standard and validate against the Bobby website accessibility software.

Standards Compliance

• The majority pages on this site are Bobby AA approved, complying with all priority 1 and 2 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
• The majority of stylesheets used to control layout and presentation of the pages on this site validate to the W3C CSS standard.

Menu

The main menu is a fully-featured and accessible DHTML menu, that provides useable content to all browsers - including screenreaders, search-engines and text-only browsers. It is WAI and Section 508 compliant and is 'tab enabled'.

Text Size

If you need to change the size of the text on the page, most Internet browsers will allow users to change the font size. However when changing your browser settings, keep this information in mind:

• Bigger text means less information on the screen at any one time and more scrolling.
• You may need to click on the ‘Refresh' or ‘Reload' button for changes to take effect.

How to change the settings of the following browsers:

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 and 6

1. From the menu bar at the top, pull down the ‘View' menu.
2. Select ‘Text Size'.
3. There are five choices, ranging from the smallest to the largest.
4. Choose a font size from the options listed.
5. Click on the new font style.
6. Some experimentation is necessary.

Mozilla Firefox, Netscape and Safari

Press ctrl and + to increase or ctrl and - to descrease font size. Mac users should use the Apple key instead of ctrl.

Images

All content images should include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics include null ALT attributes.

Visual Design

• This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.
• Public areas of this site use 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 the content of each page is still readable.

Documents

To view some content on this site you will need Adobe Reader (Adobe Acrobat) installed.

To view some content on this site you will need Flash Player (version 8 or above) installed in your browser.