Farnborough Air Sciences Trust

Safeguarding Our Unique Aviation Heritage

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:

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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Open Source

W3 Consortium

The W3.org website has masses of material and links on open standards and open source software

W3 home page

Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Firefox is the leading Open source (download free of charge) browser. It has won commendations for its accessibility features and is recommended by most website developers.

Mozilla downloads