Web Design & Development, Accessibility & User-Centric Websites from a London based Digital Agency

Accessibility statement

This website has been designed and built to be accessible to as wide an audience as possible, if you have any questions or comments about the accessibility of this site, feel free to email us at create@copious.co.uk.

Access keys

Most browsers support jumping to specific links by typing keys defined on the web site. On Windows, you can press ALT + an access key; on Macintosh, you can press Control + an access key.

The home page and all main section pages use the following access keys:

• alt / control + '1': Home
• alt / control + '2': Digital Agency (about Copious Ltd)
• alt / control + '3': Our Work (Portfolio)
• alt / control + '4': Project News (Case studies)
• alt / control + '9': Contact Us
• alt / control + '0': Skip to main content
• alt / control + 's': Sitemap

Standards compliance

1. The home page and all internal pages validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict.
2. The home page and all internal pages are supported by valid CSS.
3. All pages use semantic markup. Utilising Headers, Paragraphs and lists for content structure.
4. The home page and all internal pages are Bobby A approved, complying with all priority 1 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

Links

1. Most links have title attributes which describe the link in greater detail, unless the text of the link already fully describes the target.
2. Whenever possible, links are written to make sense out of context. Many browsers (such as JAWS, Home Page Reader, Lynx, and Opera) can extract the list of links on a page and allow the user to browse the list, separately from the page.
3. Link text is never duplicated; two links with the same link text always point to the same address.
4. There are no links that open new windows without warning.

Visual design

1. This site uses Cascading StyleSheets (CSS) for visual layout. If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets the content of each page will still be readable.
2. The content and presentation of this website have been separated, the XHTML document contains only the text and structural markup, all presentation styling such as font colours, sizes, page layout and positioning is contained in the external CSS
3. All text is assigned a relative font size - this means that you can resize the text if you want to.
4. All content images used include descriptive ALT attributes where applicable and decorative images are relegated to the CSS.
5. Each page has a printer friendly stylesheet providing high contrast black and white output for better on page legibility, (whilst saving ink and paper).

Accessibility references and further reading

1. Accessibility guidelines from the W3C explaining the reasons behind each guideline.
2. W3C accessibility techniques which explains how to implement each guideline.
3. W3C accessibility checklist, a busy developer's guide to accessibility.
4. Dive Into Accessibility, a free book about creating accessible web sites

Accessibility software

1. JAWS, a screen reader for Windows. A time-limited, downloadable demo is available.
2. Lynx, a free text-only web browser for blind users with refreshable Braille displays.
3. Links, a free text-only web browser for visual users with low bandwidth.
4. Opera, a visual browser with many accessibility-related features, including text zooming, user stylesheets, image toggle. A free downloadable version is available. Compatible with Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and several other operating systems.