Accessibility
The Test Valley Partnership aims to make this website
accessible to all users and as a result follows certain standards
and Government guidelines to ensure that this site can be used as
effectively and easily as possible by everyone.
The site has been designed to conform to the World Wide Web
Consortium (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative's 'AA' standard. You
can find details about this standard using the following link to
the
World Wide Web Consortium website
(External Link)
In addition most of the webpages are designed to be used with
screenreaders, so that visually impaired users can easily access
the content and navigate the site and as a result every page has a
set of easy access keys.
It is our aim to continue improving the level of accessibility
so that we conform to the highest W3C 'Triple A' standard in the
future.
Text Size
If you find the text size on this website is too small or too
large for you to read comfortably, you can change the size of the
text via your browser. If you need help on how to do this,
have a look at our
detailed
guide on how to do it on all major browsers.
External Links
We no longer open external links in a new window. While this
has always been seen as the more logical and accessible way of
providing links to external sites, recent research - supported by
the W3C - has shown opening extra windows for new content can
actually be more disorientating - (WAIG 1.0
level 2, priority 10.1). As a result, we have taken the
decision to open external links in the same browser window -
although all links will clearly be marked as external.