Website Accessibility

Accessibility

• About this website
• Accessibilty statement
• Making the most of the accessibility features
• Site accessibility and technical conformance

About this website

The CBRN Training website has three main areas:

• The header contains the title of the page with the CBRN Training Logo, home, accessibility and direct links to the main pages of the site. 
• The central area contains the main content or information for the page.
• The bottom of every page contains a footer, which has a site copyright statement, and links to the site privacy and legal statements.

Accessibility Help

The following sections describe some of the features that have been incorporated into this website to aid accessibility.

Accessibility Statement

• North West Ambulance Service is committed to ensuring accessibility of its Web site for people with disabilities. It is planned that new and updated Web content produced by our organisation will conform to W3C/WAI's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, Conformance Level A. Existing Web content produced by our organisation, and new, updated, and existing Web content provided for our site by third-parties, will conform to Conformance Level A where appropriate.

• Vendors supplying software used to develop our site will be required to provide information on their ability to conform to W3C/WAI's Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, Conformance Level A.

• We will review this policy in the future to consider updating it to an advanced version of W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines once available.

Making the most of our site accessibility features

Using assistive technology

Assistive technologies are products used by people with disabilities to help accomplish tasks that they cannot accomplish otherwise or could not do easily otherwise. When used with computers, assistive technologies are also referred to as adaptive software.

Some assistive technologies rely on output of other user agents, such as graphical desktop browsers, text browsers, voice browsers, multimedia players and plug-ins. Assistive technology comes in many different forms, some of these include;

• Alternative keyboards or switches
• Braille and refreshable Braille
• Screen magnifiers
• Sound notification
• Screen readers
• Speech recognition
• Scanning software
• Speech synthesis (speech output)
• Tabbing through structural elements
• Text browsers
• Voice browsers

If you do find that you are unable to access any information using any assistive technology then please contact us. If we cannot make the information accessible to you using your assistive technology, then we will try to find an alternative way for you to access or be provided with the information.

Tab indexing

The site is designed to make tabbing through a page easy. The order for tab indexing in a page is as follows:

• Home
• Accessibility
• Incident
• Practitioner Course Details
• Management Course Details
• Contact Information
• Doenloads
• Links Page
• News Page

Images

• All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics include null ALT attributes.
• Complex images include LONGDESC attributes or inline descriptions to explain the significance of each image to non-visual readers.

Visual design

• This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.
• This site uses 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 at all, the content of each page is still readable.

Standards compliance

• Most pages on this site are intended to be Bobby A approved, complying with all priority 1 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. The homepage is designed to be Bobby A compliant (level 1).