Accessibility Considerations & Provisions

Our Accessibility Policy

The Career Development Centre at NUI Maynooth has made every effort to ensure that the design of this website conforms to web standards for both usability and accessibility. Our aim is to provide an equivalence of access to the information on this website for all our users.

We have followed the W3C's WAI (Web Accessibility Initiative) guidelines in the creation of this website and we have used the latest technologies available to structure the website. W3C is the governing authority on web development standards and practices.

The website uses XHTML code to provide document structure and CSS (Cascading Stylesheets) to provide document formatting. By following guidelines set down by the W3C we are trying to make sure that all the information on our web site is available to everybody: not just the text, but the information contained in the images and other media. Using these technologies also allows us to provide a website that loads faster, and displays in more devices. The website template set contains valid XHTML and CSS code and conforms to the Web Accessibility Initiative's AA guidelines. In addition, the website template set has been Bobby Tested and has passed all Priority 2 Guidelines.

If you have a problem accessing any information on the site, please contact us and we will endeavor to provide the information in an appropriate format.

Browser Compatibility

We have ensured that the website template set displays on all current browsers including Internet Explorer 6+, Opera 7+, Firefox 1+ and Mozilla/Netscape 7+. If you do not have one of these, we recommend you upgrade as these browsers support web standards which in turn support the provision of fully functional web services for all users.

Images

All images used on the site contain descriptive alt text. In addition, images have been moved into the background where possible.

Tables

Where tables are used, we endeavor to ensure that they are written using semantic markup which includes properly labeled header cells to allow screen readers to render the data intelligently. We also endeavor to only use tables in page content where there is a real need for them, in the case of tabular data, for example.

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last reviewed: 30/5/2006

last updated: Tuesday, 30-May-2006 13:57:29 IST