Accessibility Statement
This is the official accessibility statement for the Manchester Partnership website. Our site has been designed to ensure that everyone can access it, regardless of their ability or the method they choose to browse the internet.
If you have problems accessing this site, or any of the information contained within it, please contact administration on
manchester.partnership@manchester.gov.uk so that we can continue to improve our services.
Navigational Aids
All pages contained within this site provide the following:
· A link to the site map.
· A link to this accessibility statement.
· A link to the home page.
· ‘Breadcrumb’ links (or signpost trail) to help users understand where they are in relation to the home page. These also provide the opportunity to instantly go back to any point within the trail.
Links
· Colour alone is not used to signify the presence of a link.
· Links are written to make sense out of context.
· The site map provides alternative access to pages within this site. This ensures that if links stops working, the pages will remain accessible.
· No links open in a new window without alerting the user first.
User Preferences
· This site uses font sizes that can be changed to suit your preference using the ‘text size’ option found in most browsers.
· All pages are designed using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). If your browser does not support style sheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.
· This site can be navigated using the tab button on your keyboard.
· A link to a text-only version of this site can be found in the top right-hand corner of every page.
Access Keys
Access keys provide quick links to key pages. They are useful for everyone, but especially those users who don’t use a mouse or other pointing devices, such as head wands.
Access keys are activated in different ways, depending on which browser you are using and whether you are using a Macintosh or Windows PC.
Most browsers support the following: Windows users can press ALT + an access key and Macintosh users can press CTRL (Control) + an access key. Please be aware that those people browsing with Internet Explorer may also need to press ENTER after they have entered their access key.
Please see the table below for examples of how to access the Manchester Partnership ‘About Us’ page.
Windows user (not using Internet Explorer) press ALT + q
Windows user (using Internet Explorer) ALT + q and then press ENTER
Macintosh user CONTROL + q
All pages on this site have the following access keys active:
Access key q - About Us
Access key w - News
Access key e - Vision Delivery
Access key r - Neighbourhoods
Access key t - Contact
Access key a - Partner Links
Access key s - Partners Forum
Access key d - Key Documents
Access key f - Management Group
Access key g - Performance Management
Access key h - Jargon Buster
Access key y - Accessibility
Access key u – Site Map
Access key i - Privacy
Access key o - Disclaimer
Images
All images and flash elements in this site include descriptive ALT attributes.
Acronyms and Abbreviations
All acronyms and abbreviations on this site are accompanied by explanatory text upon their first occurrence on a page.
Accessibility Software
The following accessibility software is available:
· JAWS, a screen reader for Windows. A time-limited, downloadable demo is available.
· Window Eyes, a screen reader for Windows. A downloadable demo is available.
· Lynx, a free text-only web browser.
· Opera, a visual browser with many accessibility-related features, including text zooming, user stylesheets, image toggle. A free downloadable version is available. Compatible with Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and several other operating systems.
Web Accessibility Guidelines
These pages have been designed using the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 as stated by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
Standards Compliance
This site has been verified for compliance against the guidelines stated by the W3C in the following ways:
· Automatic check using the W3C’s facility (this cannot check for all guidelines).
· Manual checks for those guidelines not measured using the automatic facility.
· Personal judgement calls for the more subjective guidelines.
After checks, this site has been graded with a triple AAA conformance standard.