The Global Integrated Systems website has been designed with accessibility issues in mind and has been tested in various ways to meet accessibility standards.
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 aim to validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional, and use CSS 2.1 for visual presentation. Use of tables for non-tabular information is kept to a minimum.All pages on this site use structured semantic markup. H1 tags are used for main titles, H2 tags for subtitles.Pages can be navigated and its content read without requiring the use of a mouse.
Visual design
Cascading styles sheets are used for visual layoutIf stylesheets are unsupported by your browser, the content of the pages is still readableImages used only as part of the overall site design have null ALT attributes
Text size
For those who do use a mouse (with a wheel) text size can be adjusted by holding down the CONTROL key on the keyboard and moving the mouse wheel accordinglyFonts sizes used are relative
Navigation
In order to make a clear distinction for those using screen readers, all adjacent navigation links are separated by non-links
Links
Where required, links employ title attributes to describe the destination in greater detailLinks are written to still make sense, even out of contextWhere the destination of a given link will take the user to a new window, this is clearly indicated for the visually impairedAdjacent links are always separated by non-link text
Forms
A tab index has been employed on our enquiry form page, for those not using a mouseAll of the input elements in the forms on this site are marked up with label tags
