Accessibility
What are our aims for this website?
We aim to make our websites accessible by all including those with visual impairment. We also aim to use methods of building the websites and maintaining the content that are simple and manageable by non-expert volunteers.
We use Open Source software and international standards for two reasons. Firstly, we are charity and our volunteers and donors expect us to minimise costs wherever appropriate and secondly, the open source organisations are leaders in this area of expertise.
What we have done on this site
Text size
The pages use re-sizable text throughout so that you can control how large the text is on your screen - see hints and tips below - and you can alter the page width if you want fewer words on each line.
Colours
I you find the colours of the FAST "house style" you can try one of our alternative colour schemes. There is a black on plain white, black on yellow and white on a black background. See hints and tips below for how to switch.
"screen reader" Browsers
We have structured the site so that if you use a text-only browser you will not struggle to make sense of what belongs to what. You do not have to scroll through less important material to reach what you want.
Hints and tips
For larger text:
- Firefox - hold down Control and press +
- IE 6 - hold down control and scroll your mouse wheel
- IE 7 - go to View, Text Size in the menu bar and select "larger" or "largest". Do not use the mouse wheel method - in IE7 that means zoom the screen and it applies a horizontal scroll bar instead of adjusting the text column widths
- IE 8 - same as Firefox
This website has good instructions: World Wide Web Consortium
For high contrast:
Firefox - go to the "view" menu and click "style". Then choose one of the high contrast alternative styles.
Our Development Strategy
Internet Standards
Our strategy is to develop this site using a standards-compliant browser (we use Firefox) and to do what we can to deliver good results with other browsers. We are sorry that our site may look less good with older browsers.
We would value your comments
Please let us know how we have done. If there is anything that needs improving or if our ideas of what would be useful are not as good as we think, point it out and we will do our best to fix it.
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