Accessibility Statement

This is the Accessibility Statement for the W. F. Howes website.

W. F. Howes is committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of technology or ability and this site has been created to adhere to many of the available standards and guidelines.

Standards Compliance

Every effort has been made to ensure all pages on this site are accessible, and the necessary care has been taken to provide an inclusive website. While conformance to accessibility guidelines is often down to interpretation, we believe this site meets all of the requirements. If you encounter a page on this site that does not meet current accessibility guidelines, then please inform us and we will correct the problem.

Every effort has been made to ensure all pages on this site conform to W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines meeting all of the relevant Guidelines. These guidelines explain how to make web content more easily available for people with disabilities. Conformance with these guidelines will help make the web more user friendly for all people. Please note however, that many of the W3C Web Content Accessibility guidelines are open to interpretation; W.F. Howes believes this site meets all of the requirements. If you encounter a page on this site that does not meet WCAG requirements, please inform us and we will correct the problem.

XHTML And CSS

All pages on this site validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict. If you encounter a page on this site that does not validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict, please inform us and we will correct the problem.

All CSS documents used on this site validate as CSS3. The site displays correctly in current browsers and using standards compliant XHTML/CSS code means any future browsers should also display it correctly.

Headings

HTML tags are used to convey the document's structure appropriately. For example, h1 tags are used to define main headings and h2 tags are used for sub headings.

Images

All images on this site include a descriptive ALT tag attribute, to provide a more detailed explanation of an image.

Font Size

This site uses relative font sizes, which enables users to change text to a more suitable size using their browser.

Stylesheets

This site uses cascading stylesheets (CSS) for the visual layout. If your browser does not support stylesheets, careful structuring of the site ensures that the content of each page is still readable and logically structured.