Accessibility Statement
The Midcounties Co-operative Society is committed to accessibility and our aim is to make our website accessible to all.
Government guidelines and the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) guidelines lay down standards for website compliance. Our aim is to meet WAI AA accessibility guidelines, complying with all priority 1 and 2 requirements and many of the priority 3 checkpoints of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
• http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/
Access keys
Access keys are keyboard shortcuts that provide an alternative navigation method for the website user.
The use of access keys depends upon the operating system being used.
Access keys are only supported by Internet Explorer 4 or above and Netscape 6X versions.
NOTE:
• For Windows - press ALT + Accesskey then ENTER
• For Macintosh - press Control + Accesskey
We have implemented the Government guidelines that recommend the use of the following access keys:
Design and layout
All pages on this site validate as HTML 4.01 and CSS2
This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.
The content of each page is still readable even if a user's browser or browsing device does not support style sheets.
We have tried to use colours throughout the Web site that provide maximum contrast between foreground and background items.
Many links in this website have title attributes, which describe the link in greater detail. Links are written to make sense out of context.
All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes.Purely decorative graphics include null ALT attributes. Complex images include LONGDESC attributes or inline descriptions to explain the significance of each image to non-visual readers.
Documents on the Website
As much information as possible is presented as web paage(html)content.
Where this is not possible, in cases where the information may be too large or constantly changing the information is presented in Adobe PDF format.
Portable Document Format (PDF)
Adobe® Acrobat® Reader is free software that lets you view and print Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Click here to download Acrobat Reader.
• www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/alternate.html
The latest versions of Adobe PDF support accessibility features including keyboard shortcuts, support for screen readers and refreshable Braille output as well as help for visual impaired readers.Full information can be found on the adobe website at access.adobe.com
• http://access.adobe.com