Accessibility
Accessibility Statement
Helping Hands Care Agency's aim is to make our website as accessible as possible to the widest range of visitors and customers.
This means considering the specific needs of those with visual or physical impairments, learning difficulties and other forms of disability. In addition it means having an understanding of different browser technologies. Our site has been created to meet current best practices and guidelines.
The Benefits of This Approach:
- Our site is available to as wide an audience as possible and across a variety of technologies. It will also be accessible to future devices.
- Our site meets guidelines for those users who may have impairments and difficulties using the web.
- Our site loads quicker and uses less bandwidth. This creates savings in hosting costs that we pass on to our customers.
- Search engines love our site. In the past layouts and graphics added lots of extra code to websites that could often confuse search engines and cause them to incorrectly list sites or in some cases ignore them completely. Our site uses web standards which mean that when search engines look at our site they see structured and coherent content which allows the correct indexing of our site.
How Have We Done This?
Our site follows what are known as 'web standards'. In the past many web browsers were released that did not follow a common standard for interpreting web pages. They focused on their own propriety code.
In recent years the makers of web browsers have adopted and brought in support for an open set of standards. These standards are laid down by the W3C, a not-for-profit organisation that oversees the development of the web.
There is now a move towards this standards based approach of building websites within the industry and Ajay Solutions is proud to work in this way.
Legal Requirements
All web sites that are owned by UK businesses need to comply with the Disability Discrimination Act (The DDA). The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 was introduced with the intention of comprehensively tackling the discrimination which many disabled people face. The part of the DDA that states web sites must be made accessible came into force on October 1 1999 and the Code of Practice for this section of the Act was published on May 27 2002. As a business with an online presence it is important that we are aware of this act.
Access Keys
If your browser supports access keys we have defined them for the top level of our website navigation. We have not gone beyond that level as we believe having too many access key creates a burden on the user in remembering them.
- AccessKey + 1 = Home Page
- AccessKey + 2 = Services
- AccessKey + 3 = Testimonials
- AccessKey + 4 = Staff
- AccessKey + 5 = Recruitments
- AccessKey + 6 = Benefits
- AccessKey + 7 = About
- AccessKey + 8 = Website Terms Of Use
- AccessKey + 9 = Accessibility (this page)
- AccessKey + 0 = Contact Us
Increasing the Size of the Text
If you prefer the font size on the pages to be larger or smaller, then use the 'Increase font' and 'Decrease font' options in the top left corner of the page. This may not work if your browser does not support JavaScript. Alternatively, you can control font size using your browser settings.
Examples of how to increase or decrease fonts in several popular browsers follows:
All browsers
If you have a wheel on your mouse you can also increase and decrease the size of the text by:
- press and hold the "CTRL" key, then move the wheel up and down to change the size of the text.
Internet Explorer Version 5.5 and above
Provides 5 font sizes (largest, larger, medium, smaller, and smallest). Medium is the default size.
You change font size by:
- selecting 'View' from the menu bar, and,
- selecting 'Text Size' then,
- select the size you want from the list.
Or:
- press and hold the 'Alt' key, then
- type 'V' and 'X', then
- release 'Alt' key, then
- select the size you want from the list
The font size you select will remain in effect until you select a different size.
Firefox & Safari
Allows users to increase or decrease font size with shortcut keys.
To increase the displayed font size:
- Hold down the 'Ctrl' key and press the '+' key.
- Font size will increase immediately.
- If you want to increase the size further simply press the '+' key while still holding down the 'Ctrl' key.
To decrease the displayed font size:
- Hold down the 'Ctrl' key and press the '-' key.
- The font size will decrease immediately.
- If you want to decrease the size further simply press the '-' key while still holding down the 'Ctrl' key.
Your selected font size will remain in effect until you close Firefox.
Opera Version 6.0 and above
You increase or decrease the displayed font size by:
- press and hold the 'Alt' key, then
- type 'V' and 'Z', then
- release 'Alt' key, then
- select the size you want from the list
Visit your browser's help feature for additional information on this and other browser related topics.