It is the policy of the Bar Library to comply with current best practice in relation to the Accessibility standards on its website. The Bar Library regards WAI AA accessibility standard as current ‘best practice’.
The Bar Library’s website is compliant to WAI AA accessibility standard and provides the following:
Content production/coding
- Provides alternative ways of viewing your content
- Ensures that all text can be resized
- Ensures pages are usable with scripts/applets turned off
- Ensures pages are readable with style-sheets turned off
- Provides HTML alternatives to non-text content (flash etc.)
- Ensures equivalents for dynamic content are updated when dynamic content is updated
Tables:
- For data tables, it identifies row and column headers
- For data tables with >1 logical level of row or column headers, it uses markup to associate data cells and header cells
- Ensures that text of more than two lines is left aligned
- Ensures that pages have a logical tab order through all screen elements
- Adheres WAI Level AA Standards & Guidelines
- Uses validated HTML
Design
- It is readable with style-sheets/scripts turned off and text & background colours changed
- Provides HTML alternatives to non-text content (Flash etc.)
- Uses pictures and symbols in addition to text / Present information in multiple ways
Colour:
- Ensures all information conveyed with colour is available without colour, or from context/markup
- Ensures that there is sufficient contrast between text and background colours
- Whenever possible, use a plain solid background
Structure/layout:
- Provides consistent navigation
- Clearly defines the different sections of the page & ensure consistent location of screen objects
- Ensures that pages have a logical tab order through all screen elements
- Ensures page layout supports enlarging of text
- Avoids putting “too much" on the page
- Uses scrolling pages, not multiple pages
- Has suitable space around links / Ensure that links are large enough to select easily
- Has tables that are appropriately designed
- an appropriate typeface
Moving images:
- Does not use blinking or moving text/images
- Ensures time-outs are appropriate
- Avoids scrolling text boxes (in forms)