accessibility

accessibility image (wheelchair)

Castorgray understand that the Internet is an extremely valuable resource and believe that it should be accessible by all members of society. We endeavour to make our websites accessible to people with a wide range with disabilities, including blindness and low vision, deafness and hearing loss, learning difficulties, cognitive limitations, limited movement, speech difficulties, and others.

An accessible Internet can help people with disabilities more actively participate in society.



castorgray accessibility

Full details of Castorgray's accessibility can be found in the sections below.

standards compliance

All castorgray web pages comply with the guidelines specified within the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

In addition, our web pages are built using standards-compliant XHTML 1 Transitional (XHTMLT 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language) . The XHTML code of this particular page can be tested here:

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access keys

Most browsers support jumping to specific links by typing keys defined on the web site. On a Windows machine, you can press ALT + the access key and on a Mac, you can use CTRL + the access key. The following access keys are available throughout the site:

1: home - introduction to castorgray
2: services - castorgray's services
3: portfolio - castorgray's portfolio
4: how we work - castorgray's working process
5: about - about castorgray
6: contact - contact castorgray
7: blog - view castorgray weblog
8: accessibility - castogray's access policy details
9: sitemap - all pages of this site

styled using CSS

Castorgray styles it's pages using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and XHTML. This way, the presentation and context of the site are kept separate allowing the site to be viewed 'naked' as shown here. This method allows users to turn off styling should they be viewing the site on a limited device such as a mobile phone or PDA or in a limited environment such a low-resolution monitor or dial-up connection.

javascript

Javascript, a client-side scripting languauge is used throughout this site. In each case, the coding has been designed such that the page will be fully accessible even to those who do not have javascript script enabled in their browser (or a browser without javascript functionality).

accessibility services

If you are interested in speaking to Castorgray about accessibility, just get in touch.