Accessibility
St George's Hall website conforms to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) web standards. W3C provides Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) for people who create and maintain websites.
These guidelines help organisations provide websites that are accessible to people with disabilities. The guidelines are split into 3 priority levels:
- Priority 1.
- Priority 2.
- Priority 3.
All pages on this site comply with Priority 1 and the majority of pages comply with Priority 1 and 2. We are committed to maintaining and improving the accessibility of the site.
Usability
The website benefits from the following usability features:
- Global site navigation.
- Sitemap that offers easy access to all web pages within the site.
- Breadcrumb feature that allows users to clearly see where they currently are within the sites structure.
- What's on, search that's easy to use.
- All pages of the web site will function correctly without scripting or rich-media plug-ins.
Operating systems
There are many features built into your operating system that will enable you to alter screen colours and text sizes, control the size of the mouse pointer and other assisting features.
Changing text size
Microsoft Internet Explorer
If you are using Internet Explorer, go to the menu at the top of the browser window and select View, from the list of options, select Text Size. You will see a side menu open up; select the size you wish to view the website in.
Firefox (Mozilla)
If you are using Firefox, go to the menu at the top of the browser window and select View, from the list of options, select Text Size. You will see a side menu open up; select the size you wish to view the website in.
Firefox also allows the text size to be changed with keyboard shortcuts:
- Press Ctrl and + to increase the size.
- Press Ctrl and - to decrease the size.
- Press Ctrl and 0 to go back to the default size.
Apple Mac
For a computer using a Macintosh operating system
- Press Cmd and + to increase the size
- Press Cmd and - to decrease the size
- Press Cmd and 0 to go back to the default size
Linux
For a computer using a Linux operating system
- Press Ctrl and + to increase the size
- Press Ctrl and - to decrease the size
- Press Ctrl and 0 to go back to the default
Styles and colours
Internet Explorer users should click on tools, options and then the colours, fonts or accessibility buttons.
For more help in making changes which will improve your web browsing experience, visit the following websites:
- The BBC, along with disability and technology charity Abilitynet, has published a website to inform disabled people of changes they can make to their operating system to optimize accessibility: http://www.bbc.co.uk/accessibility.
- Microsoft publishes detailed information on changes that can be made to the Windows operating system: http://www.microsoft.com/enable/
- Apple publishes detailed information on changes that can be made to the Mac operating system: http://www.apple.com/accessibility/
- Detailed information on changes that can be made to Linux can be found at: http://lars.atrc.utoronto.ca/
- http://accessibility.kde.org/
- http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/
PDF files
Many of the PDF documents available on our website have been created using later versions of Adobe Acrobat, either version 6.0 or the newly released 7.0. If you have difficulties opening our documents, this may be because you have an older version of Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your pc.
The latest version, version 7.0, can be downloaded free from the Adobe website.
Adobe can also help you access content using assistive technologies such as screen readers or screen magnifiers. You can link to the Access Adobe website for information on making these documents accessible.
