Accessibility Statement
At Lightmaker, we are committed to making our work accessible to all. Through close work with organisations like the RNIB and RNID, we strive to deliver outstanding sites that everyone can enjoy.
Accessibility Features
To make this website accessible to all, we have included the following functionality:
- Adjustable text size
The size of body text on our site can be determined by the user. There are two ways to do this:- In Internet Explorer
Select the View menu, then Text Size, then a setting from the list of five sizes. - In FireFox
Select the View menu, then Text Size, then either Increase or Decrease from the menu list. - In Safari
Select the View menu, then either Make Text Bigger or Make Text Smaller. - In all browsers
Holding down the CTRL button and scrolling the mouse-wheel up and down will adjust text size accordingly.
- Keyboard navigation
Navigating around the site is possible without the mouse. The following keyboard commands are active across the site, in both HTML and Flash elements of the site:- TAB - to cycle forwards through links.
- SHIFT + TAB - to cycle backwards though links.
- ENTER - to select a highlighted link.
The ordering of the tabbable items has been specified, which allows a natural progression through links and form fields in the site. - Screen readers
Lightmaker.com works with screen reader technology. This allows an audio narration of the site as an alternative to visual. At Lightmaker we develop with the three leading screen readers in mind. These are:- JAWS - produced by Freedom Scientific.
- Window Eyes - produced by GW Micro.
- Home Page Reader - produced by IBM.
Primary keyboard controls for JAWS and Window Eyes are below for reference:- JAWS keyboard controls
- INSERT + ESCAPE = update screen
- DOWN ARROW = read next item
- UP ARROW = read previous item
- INSERT + DOWN ARROW = read all
- RIGHT ARROW = read next character
- LEFT ARROW = read previous character
- ENTER = activate link button
- Window Eyes keyboard controls
- TAB = next link
- CONTROL + TAB = previous link
- DOWN ARROW = read next item
- UP ARROW = read previous item
- PAGE DOWN = read all
- PAGE UP = go to top
- RIGHT ARROW = read next character
- LEFT ARROW = read previous character
- ENTER = activate link button
- CTRL + SHIFT + A = toggle MSAA mode to update screen
- Images
Every image throughout the site has been tagged with an ALT attribute. ALT allows alternative description to be given for each image. This allows both screen readers and browsers which don't display images to represent a substitute description. - Compliance
Lightmaker.com validates as compliant XHTML and CSS with the W3C.
