Website Accessibility
Website Accessibilty Features
The Windsor Live Network is committed to standards-compliance and developing this website to conform to the recommendations and specifications of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Our decision to do this allows us to ensure the content of our website is accessible to more browsers and devices (e.g. Braille readers, PDAs, cell phones, and text-only browsers).
We make every effort to ensure our code meets current recommendations and specifications for XHTML 1.0 Strict and validated CSS Style Sheets and valid PHP Coding. If you are aware if any instances where our code does not work in any of the above browsers or does not meet the previously mentioned standards, please let us know.
For more information on designing for web standards, please visit the following websites, Web Standards Switch (W3C), Web Standards Project
- Keyboard Shortcut Access Keys
- Title Tags
- Tab Access
- Link Identification
- How to Change the Look of our Pages
Keyboard Shortcut Access Keys
Most browsers support jumping to specific links by typing keys defined on the web site. For greater convenience keyboard shortcuts have been included within this website. To access these shortcuts hold down either the "Alt" key (on a PC) or "Ctrl" key (on a Mac) and the shortcut key listed below:
All pages on this site define the following access keys:
Please note that all keys may not be active on all pages, many are utilized for page specific options and features.
This system is still under beta testing
- Access key + 1 - Home Page
- Access key + 2 - Site Map
- Access key + 3 - Site Search
- Access key + 4 - Reserved
- Access key + 5 - Reserved
- Access key + 6 - Reserved
- Access key + 7 - Website Terms of Use
- Access key + 8 - Website Privacy Policy
- Access key + 9 - Accessibility Info
- Access key + 0 - Feedback & Contact Info
Tab Access
We are currently working on tab access to allow easier navigation by utlizing the tab button to logically navigate between the links. This will allow the site to be more accessible for those without a mouse.
Title Tags
We have added title tags to all of our headers, titles and links sitewide. This assists those with alternative rendering devices to navigate through the page headers & links to find the specific content or information they are seeking without having to go through the entire content along the way. The added benefit of this is that a small display box will appear with more information as you hover over it with your mouse. Try it out, hover your mouse over any title, heading or link and see for yourself. Your browser must be current and have the ability to read titles, but most currently utilized browsers have this feature.
Link Identification
We have several features to help users distingush between normal text and links on our site. Below you will find out more about these features.
Link Underlining
By ensuring our links are underlined or placed in [brackets] throughout the content area's of our website, we allow users with vision impairments (such as colour blindness) to still differentiate between regular copy text and links.
Link Hover
We have provided the additional feature of underline-overline to our links. When you hover over a link with your mouse it will be displayed with a line above and a line below the link and highlighted with a different colour.
Link Titles
We have also provides title tags to all of our links that will display information in a small highlight box as you hover over the link. This allows us to provide more info about the link and where it will take you.
How to Change the Look of our Pages
Your browser settings should work to change the way the page displays based upon your preferences. Our website meets WAI guidelines and are designed for accessibility, flexibility, and user control. However, some browsers do not provide as much user control, and some Web sites, unfortunately, are designed to defeat browser settings. Text resizing does not work well in browsers and Web sites that do not meet accessibility guidelines.
- How to Change Text Size & Colours
- How to Change Text Size
- How to Change to Plain Layout View
- Other Text & Colour Changes
How to Change Text Size & Colours
The WindsorLive! Web site is designed to let you change the text size, text and background colours, and other display settings through standard browser settings.
How to Change Text Size
Most Web browsers include functionality to let you increase or decrease the text in a Web page. We have a few listed below.
- Internet Explorer: View > Text Size > Largest
- Firefox: View > Text Size > Increase
- Netscape: View > Text Size > Increase
- Opera: View > Zoom > %
- Safari: View > Make Text Bigger
How to Change to Plain Layout View
The WindsorLive! Web site is designed to allow you to turn off the style sheets for a plain layout view, for those browsers with that option. This makes the text black on a white background, puts all of the information in one column or linearized, leaves the content images, if any, and leaves out the background images. Below are a couple of examples.
- Firefox: View > Page Style > No Style
- Opera: View > Style > Author Mode
Other Text & Colour Changes
Many browsers provide functionality to set different aspects of font and colour. Usually by utilizing the functions of your browsers tools and/or preferences options.
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