First Steps Childrens Day Nursery are commited to making this web site as accessible as possible to all visitors (including those with visual, hearing, cognitive or motor impairments) to meet requirements of the Disability Discrimination Act (1995) as well as the World Wide Web Consortium's Web Accessibility Initiative.
Accessibility refers to the attempt to ensure that content on our site can be read by everyone, regardless of disability and technology used.
First Steps Childrens Day Nursery acknowledge that accessibility must be considered as a fundamental consideration at every stage of site development work, not an "optional extra". As a result we try to ensure that our content works consistently with its assistive technologies to ensure an accessible experience for all disabled users.
Often people are restricted when browsing a web site as they have not been accounted for in the design. First Steps Childrens Day Nursery have tried to provide a high level of accessibility and developments in this regard are continuously ongoing.
Currently, we ensure compliance with World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. We are also striving to meet level 3 compliance, where possible, under these guidelines.
Below are examples of ways the site is made more accessible to people:
- Pictures have descriptive text (alt attributes) in addition to text.
- Built where possible with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), to set the colour, size and layout of the text within each page.
- Links contain information about their destination and there is suitable space around links. The simplest, clearest and most compact language appropriate for the site content is used.
- Navigation is consistent throughout our site. Different sections of the page are clearly defined.
- For those whose concentration of long pieces of information may not last (for instance, individuals with learning disabilities), information has been reduced, where possible, and relevant information has been grouped and displayed in different pages.
- Font is appropriate, easy to read and meets contrast guidelines ensuring increased contrast between background and text for readability purposes.
- Tables and pop-ups are avoided where possible.
- Flickering screens / images are avoided.
- Flash is avoided for navigation or in a manner that may prevent visitors using key areas of the site. If flash is required it will be clearly labelled.
This is a representative sample of guidelines that we aim to adhere to. Please contact us if you have any accessibility concerns.
