Accessibility

The cap that! website has been designed to conform to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 ‘AA’ level. Compliance with this standard has been achieved through practical implementation during development and user testing.

Ensuring access for all users is important to us. We note that some resources provided on this website are from third parties of which we have no control over, therefore may not meet 'AA' compliance. If you require any of these resources in accessible formats, would like further information or to provide feedback, please contact us.

Adjusting the text size

You can make the text size on this website larger or smaller using the following keyboard commands:

  1. Hold down the CTRL key (Microsoft Windows) or the ‘Apple’ key (Mac OS X) on your keyboard
  2. Use the + or – key, or scroll with your mouse wheel to make text bigger or smaller
  3. Keep repeating step 2 until the text is at a suitable size

Tab-based navigation

This website allows full tab-based navigation. When you are on a menu item or link pressing enter will take you to that page. Holding down ‘shift’ as you tab will take you through the tab cycle in reverse order.

Other navigation aids

Breadcrumbs

Breadcrumbs are included on the site. These are a series of links that show you your trail back to the home page from the section you are in.

Search

You can search our website using basic search.

Headings

This website includes proper use of headings that can be navigated through depending on the navigation settings of your screen reader.

Links

Whenever possible, links have been written meaningfully to make sense when read out of context, such as by a screen reader.

Images and graphics

All images and graphics include descriptive “alt” attributes (alt text).