Accessibility
Why an Accessibile website is important
Millions of people have disabilities that affect their use of the Web. Having an accessible website is important for ensuring that everyone on the internet can view the ATBA-UK website. Many users:
- use speech browsers or eyes busy/hands busy, as businessmen in cars;
- don't have the latest graphical browsers and plug-ins;
- surf with slow modems, or reside in rural or remote areas with limited access to the Internet;
- browse without graphics, using text-only browsers or subscribe to non-graphic services;
- access in noisy, high- or low-light environments;
There are also many users with disabilities such as;
- Visual - blind, low vision, color blind;
- Auditory - deaf, hard of hearing;
- Motor/physical - paraplegic;
- Cognitive/learning - dyslexic, learning disabled.
Having an accessible website means that every user, regardless of physical, sensory and cognitive disabilities, constraints and/or technological barriers can access the information.
Navigating the ATBA-UK Website
The main means of navigating the ATBA-UK website is via the menu. Clicking on these buttons will take the user to each of the main pages on the website. Sub-pages can also be accessed from links within each of the main pages.
All text hyperlinks on the ATBA-UK website are underlined, and include a description of where the link will take you in a hover box that will appear when you place your cursor over the link.
At the bottom of each page is an arrow which when clicked will take you to the top of the page.
The Site Map provides a list of all the pages on the ATBA-UK Website.
Access Keys
The ATBA-UK Website includes Access keys to enable users to navigate via a keyboard.
- Accesskey h will take you to the Home page.
- Accesskey r will take you to the Riding page.
- Accesskey c will take you to the Community page.
- Accesskey a will take you to the About page.
- Accesskey e will take you to the Events page.
- Accesskey t will take you to the Results page.
- Accesskey k will take you to the Locations page.
- Accesskey d will take you to the Disciplines page.
- Accesskey u will take you to the Learn to Ride page.
- Accesskey m will take you to the Membership page.
- Accesskey v will take you to the Volunteering page.
- Accesskey p will take you to the Promotion page.
- Accesskey s will take you to the Sponsorship page.
- Accesskey l will take you to the Links page.
- Accesskey n will take you to the News page.
- Accesskey w will take you to the What we do page.
- Accesskey i will take you to the Instructors page.
- Accesskey q will take you to the Policies page.
- Accesskey z will take you to the Contact page.
Below is a list of browsers with the key combination required to activate the Access Keys.
- Amaya - Ctrl or Alt.
- Blazer - Link is activated immediately upon key press. No modifier is needed for this web browser used on mobile devices.
- Google Chrome 1 - Alt. Current stable release version 2 does not support access keys.
- Firefox 2 & 3 - Alt + Shift.
- Internet Explorer - Alt. Alt + Access Key focuses on the link, but requires Enter to be pressed in order to activate the link.
- Konqueror - Ctrl. The modifier key must be released before the regular key is pressed.
- Opera - Shift+Esc. The modifier key must be released before the regular key is pressed. Once the modifier key is released, browser lists the set of access keys on that page with action and user can hit the desired key.
- Safari 3 - Ctrl (Alt for Windows).
- Safari 4 - Ctrl + Option (Alt for Windows).
Valid HTML
The ATBA-UK website is written in valid HTML. Valid HTML pages are pages that adhere to a set of rules defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Using valid HTML is the first step to creating accessible pages that are more likely to be viewable to users with special technologies, or alternative browsers.
Valid CSS
The ATBA-UK website is styled using CSS, which ensures the web pages are handled consistently across browsers, whether viewed on a PC, palmtop or mobile. CSS also makes pages load faster.
