Accessibility
Access keys
All main navigation items can be accessed through access keys on your keyboard. On Windows, press ALT + access key and on Macintosh press Control + access key:
- Home - h
- Athertons News - 1
- Services - 2
- Orders - 3
- About Athertons - 4
- Contact us - 5
- Site map - 6
- Accessibility - k
Design
- For those using screen readers, the content comes before the navigation on each page - at the start of the content you have the option to skip to the navigation.
- The pages on this website are all printer-friendly - just the Athertons logo and the page content will appear on any printouts.
- All pages are designed using CSS - no tables whatsoever have been used in the design of this website.
- Structure and presentation have been completely separated - the HTML documents contain just the text that you see on the screen and some structural tags (for example,
<br>, and<font>are not used on this website or are used very sparingly). - All text is assigned a relative font size - this means that you can resize the text if you want to.
- All informational images contain an ALT tag and decorative images are either relegated to the CSS document or have a null ALT attribute.
We aim to make this website accessible to everyone. If you experience any kind of problem or have any feedback about it please e-mail .
Browser compatibility
This website has been tested and proven to offer full functionality on Windows, Macintosh and Linux with:
- Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.2, 5.5, and 6.0
- Mozilla Firefox 1.0
- Netscape 6.2 and 7.0
- Opera 6.0
- Safari 1.0
- Mozilla 1.5 and 1.6
- Konqueror 3.0.5
- IBM Homepage Reader 3.0
- PDAs
- Screen sizes ranging from 600px to 1600px in width
This website relies on CSS2, which is unsupported by IE 4 and below and Netscape 4 and below. It can still be accessed on these browsers but with unpredictable presentation results. The decision to use CSS2 was taken due to the very small number of Internet users browsing with these older versions (now less than 1%). We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Standards compliance
This website conforms to:
- W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines priority 1, 2, and 3 guidelines
- XHTML 1.0
- CSS 2.0
Resizing the text
To increase the text size:
- Internet Explorer: View > Text size
- Netscape: Edit > Preferences > Appearance > Fonts
- Opera: File > Preferences > Fonts > Minimum font size (pixels)
Alternatively, scroll with the wheel of your mouse whilst holding down the control key.
