Accessibility :: Impressionz.net, Freelance Web Designer and Developer

Accessibility Help You can change the way this website looks to suit your needs. The settings available differ from browser to browser, but most browsers offer some or all of the following:

Change the Text Size This site uses relative font sizes in style sheet. This means that the size of the text is sized relative to the setting in your browser. You can adjust the size of nearly all the text on this website by using the font size setting in your browser. This setting is found in the 'View' menu of most browsers.

View or Page > Text size
Menu View > Text Size > Increase or Decrease
View > Text size

Change the Font/Colours Some browsers allow you to change the default font and background colours you use. These settings are usually found in the 'Options' or 'Preferences' menus.

Menu Tools > Internet Options > General >Accessibility
Menu Tools > Options > General > Fonts&Colors.[May require reloading the page]
Menu Tools > Options > Content > Fonts&Colors

Use a 'Plain' Layout Many browsers allow you to strip a web page of all layout and styling by turning off the website 'style sheets'. If your browser supports this setting you will most likely find it in the 'View' menu.

Standards Compliance This website conforms to:

W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines priority 1 Level 'A' guidelines: One of the many requirements of WCAG 1.0 is that foreground and background color combinations should provide sufficient contrast when viewed by someone with low vision or colour blindness, or when viewed on a black and white screen. On this site, both color difference and color brightness meet the recommended standard.

XHTML 1.0 Transitional: This logo can be seen on almost every webpage of this site. It shows that every care has been taken by this website to conform with the W3C web standards. By clicking on these logos, validation for each page can be verified.

CSS: UK Government recommendations:
'Use HTML to structure the document, not style it. Use Cascading Style Sheets to format and style basic elements of a website' This website meets CSS specifications recommended by W3C. This has helped in making this site more user friendly and easily accessible.