Accessibility

Disability Equals Business is committed to the accessibility of its website. The website has been designed with a number of accessibility features. The key features include:

Readable and resizable fonts and layouts

The website uses font sizes that you can control using your web browser (more information on controlling font sizes using your web browser – opens in a new window). The website's fonts have been chosen for their legibility on computer screens. The website's layout has been designed to stretch to fill the width of the browser, so that you can resize the browser to suit your own viewing preferences.

Customisable colour scheme

We have designed the site with accessibility in mind and we have used a colour scheme with good contrast between foreground and background colours. If you have special requirements you may be able to use your web browser to change or disable background and foreground colours (more information on changing colours using your web browser – opens in a new window) or to apply your own stylesheet (IE: Tools > Internet Options... General - Accessibility button).

Minimising the use of images

Live text is used rather than graphics wherever possible to reduce page download time and to increase your control over text size.

Access keys

Access keys are a useful navigation device enabling you to get around the DEB's main website using your keyboard. They can be used to jump to different sections of content across the main DEB website. Access keys details.

Ordered content

Page content is ordered so that if you use a text browser, or browse with stylesheets turned off (more information on turning stylesheets off – opens in a new window), the content appears in a logical order. Links to skip repeated elements such as navigation are provided.

User testing

We have conducted several phases of user-testing of the whole website and of new sections. We always involve disabled people with a range of impairments in this testing and we make any changes needed to make the site more accessible and easy-to-use.

We seek to meet the Priority A, AA, and selected AAA guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Our website is tested on a regular basis using a combination of automated tools to identify potential problem areas and manual testing to ensure we meet the spirit as well as the letter of the W3C's accessibility guidelines. We are committed to addressing any access issues promptly. If you experience any difficulties in accessing our website, or have trouble using any aspect of the website, we'd like you to let us know.