Website Accessibility

Designed with accessibility in mind

In order to make The Pallet Truck Stop website as accessible to, and as usuable by, as many visitors as possible (regardless of abilities or technologies used) it has been designed with accessibility issues very much in mind.

Plus, to ensure it meets at least the minimum requirements of recognised accessibility standards, it has been thoroughly tested in various browsers (including screen readers) and in various scenarios.

General

• All pages on this site comply with all priority 1, 2, and in most cases, 3 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). Please bear in mind that many of these guidelines are intentionally vague and can therefore not really be tested automatically.
• All pages on this site use structured semantic markup.

Visual design

• All pages on this site aim to validate as HTML 4.01 Transitional, and use CSS 2.1 for visual presentation. Tables are used only for tabular data, not layout.
• Cascading styles sheets are used for visual layout.
• If stylesheets are unsupported by your browser, the content of the pages is still readable.

Images

• Content images (i.e. those not used for overal site design) used on this site include descriptive ALT attributes.
• Images used only as part of the overall site design have null ALT attributes

Navigation & links

• Pages can be navigated and their content read without requiring the use of a mouse.
• Where required, links employ title attributes to describe the destination in greater detail.
• Links are written to still make sense, even out of context.
• Where the destination of a given link will take the user to a new window, this is clearly indicated for the visually impaired.
• Adjacent links are always separated by non-link text.

Forms

• For those without a mouse, all form input fields can be tabbed to.
• All of the input elements in the forms on this site are marked up with label tags.

Client-side scripting

• Use of client-side scripts (such as Javascript) has been kept to a minimum.
• Where Javascript has been employed it is only intended to serve as an enhancement to the site rather facilitating any major functionality.
• Where possible, Javascript used has been made unobtrusive.

Printing

• All pages are printer friendly and should print without issue on standard A4 paper.
• Elements not required in a printed document (such as site navigation) are removed upon print.

Testing

• All pages have been compatibility tested in a range of browsers across both PC and Apple Macintosh platforms - including: Internet Explorer; Firefox; Safari, IBM Screen Reader, Google Chrome & Opera.

Credits

• For more details about accessibility visit the excellent Dive Into Accessibility website (link opens in new window).