Accessibility
The Diocese of Leicester take Accessibility seriously...
Access Keys
Most browsers support jumping to specific links by typing keys defined on the web site. On Windows, you can press ALT + an access key; on Macintosh, you can press Control + an access key.
The primary sections of this site are defined by the following access keys:
Access Key c - skip to content
Access Key a - accessibility statement
Access Key s - site map
Access Key r - RSS feeds
Access Key h - Home page
Access Key t - Terms
Access Key p - Privacy Statement
Standards Compliance
As best we can determine, all pages on this site are Bobby AAA approved, complying with all the Bobby guidelines. This is always a judgement call; many accessibility features can be measured, but many can not. We have reviewed all the guidelines and believe that all these pages are in compliance.
As best we can determine, all pages on this site are WCAG AAA approved, complying wih all priority 1, 2, and 3 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Again, this is a judgement call; many guidelines are intentionally vague and can not be tested automatically. We have reviewed all the guidelines and believe that all these pages are in compliance.
All pages on this site validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict. This is not a judgement call; a program can determine with 100% accuracy whether a page is valid XHTML.
All pages on this site use structured semantic markup. H2 tags are used for main titles, H3 tags for subtitles.
Links
Many links have title attributes which describe the link in greater detail, unless the text of the link already fully describes the target (such as the headline of an article).
Links are clearly written to make sense out of context.
Images
All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes.
Visual Design
This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout. This site uses only relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified "text size" option in visual browsers. If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.