Accessibility

The Care Principles website is built to recognised W3C standards that makes it easy to use and accessible to everyone: this includes people with sight, hearing, mobility and cognitive impairments.

The site’s layout takes into account users who are blind or visually impaired. It is fully compatible with popular screen reading software. If you have difficulties using a mouse, the site can be navigated using only a keyboard.

In technical language, all pages on this site should be valid to Hyper Text Mark-up Language (XHTML) 1.0 Transitional and use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). This supports the Worldwide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, Level A, to ensure a web accessibility standard has been achieved and is maintained.

Accesskeys

The following access keys are active on all pages of this website (for users of Internet Explorer 5 and above).:

Alt and 0 then ENTER - Accessibility details
Alt and 1 then ENTER - Home page
Alt and 2 then ENTER - Contact us
Alt and 3 then ENTER - Care services
Alt and 5 then ENTER - List of all our Care facilities
Alt and 6 then ENTER - Events
Alt and 7 then ENTER - News
Alt and s then ENTER - Skip navigation
Alt and q then ENTER - Skip to secondary navigation

Cross browser support

Please note that different versions of web browsers may use different keyboard commands to activate access keys. In addition, particular access keys may not work if your browser has reserved the shortcut for its own use. Use your browser’s help feature to find out more.

PDF files and accessibility

PDF file standards have improved over the years and have become more accessible through technologies like screen readers, navigation through the keyboard and enhanced screen viewing. The Adobe site provides information on how best to use these features. You may come across earlier versions of PDF files which are not so accessible.

To open PDF files, you need a copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader:

Download Adobe Reader

Further information

For further information on accessibility and the internet, please see the following website: