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Accessibility

Hate Crime Justice is committed to providing you a website that is accessible to the widest possible audiences

Summary: Information about the Hate Crime Justice site, how to change how it looks and tips for people using screen readers.

• Using the site
• Where to start
• Search Tips
• How the site is built for accessibility
• Accessibility Barriers
• Contact Us

Using the Site

We have aimed to create sites that are available to everyone including those with sight, audio and motor impairment restrictions.

• We aim to use a web font so all text is easy to read.
• We have appropriate alt tags for images to convey information.
• We ensure that navigation through our websites works in a consistent way.
• We do not rely on just colour as the only way of giving information.
• We avoid the use of images of text wherever possible, and provide equivalent text links that consist of images. Here are a few helpful ways in which you can start using the website more easily.

To enlarge text and images on the site On a PC:

• Hold down the 'Ctrl' key and press '+' to enlarge.
• Hold down the 'Ctrl' key and press '-' to reduce.
• To reset hold down 'Ctrl' and press '0'.
• On an Apple Macintosh computer hold the 'Cmd' (Apple) key instead of 'Ctrl'.

To change the size of the window of the site

On the browser View menu select 'Full screen' or press 'F11'.

Search Tips

A search box appears at the top of each page. To get the best results follow these tips:

How the Site is built for Accessibility

All pages on this site are WCAG AA approved, complying with all priority 1 and 2 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2. Whilst we would like to say this is categorically so it is a judgement call; many guidelines are intentionally vague and can not be tested automatically. We have reviewed all the guidelines and believe that all these pages are in compliance.

We strive to make all pages validate to a W3C formal grammar (XHTML Strict or HTML 5).

Layout

The site uses Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to control all of the presentation and layout. Tables are used only to present data.

As a result screen reader users can use the screen reader's navigation key to get around the site. If you are listening to the site, menus are grouped together in a more logical fashion.

Content

The content has been written and formatted to make it accessible. For example:

• Headings highlight sections of text (a h1 starts the content area of each page).
• Sentences are short with the meaning at the beginning.
• Forms can be navigated using the tab key.

Accessibility Barriers

Through research of standard guidelines, Hate Crime Justice are continually working to improve the accessibility of our sites that we have, in the meantime should you experience any difficulties please contact us explaining the problems you encountered.