Accessibility - how to use this website and make use of its accessibility features

Using this site you can find out more about the seaside towns of Bournemouth and Torbay. There are links to downloadable resources and additional links to other relevant sites.

On this page you can read about:

• Accessibility
• Navigation bar and links
• Site map
• Finding related information
• PDF's

Accessibility

The 'Footprints in the Sand' website is designed to be accessible to as many people as possible, including those with disabilities of one form or another, which could be sensory or motor disabilities. We have followed World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) WAI recommendations. A website can be rated at one of three Web content Accessibility Guidelines conformance levels - A (Priority 1), AA (Priority 1 and 2) and AAA (Priority 1, 2 and 3). For this website we have aimed to adhere to AA.

• Access Keys - these are intented to provide keyboard shortcuts as an alternative form of navigation around the website. With Windows-based systems press the 'Alt key', the access key and the 'Return' key. With the Macintosh system press the 'Ctrl key', the access key and the 'Return' key.

• S - Skip Navigation
• 1 - Home Page
• 2 - Site Map
• 3 - Information/Contacts
• 4 - Accessibility
• a - Torbay 1800-1886
• b - Torbay 1837-1870
• c - Torbay 1871-1907
• d - Bournemouth 1800-1886
• e - Bournemouth 1837-1870
• f - Bournemouth 1871-1907
• g -Theme: Children
• h -Theme: Health and Leisure
• i - Theme: People and Personalities
• j - Theme: Transport
• k - Theme: Town Development
• l - Theme: Wars
  
  
• Skip Navigation - A skip navigation facility has been provided on this site for the benefit of users with screen readers. It can be implemented by using the skip navigation access key i.e. ALT + S + Return. Implementing skip navigation on any given page allows the user to bypass the navigation areas and go directly to that page's main content.
  
• Modify Font sizes - The RNIB website provides useful information on 'How to make the text larger in your web browser, without using any special software'.
  
• Multimedia content - Where video/audio content is presented on the website, text transcriptions are provided.

Navigation bar and links

Every page on the website has a 'navigation bar' along the top of the page, underneath the banner.

Site map

On every page there is a link to our Sitemap. This is a list of all the main pages on the site, organised under the relevant section names. It's simply another way of showing a hierarchically organised website: if a page name is indented compared to the one above it then it is considered to be at a level below that page - it is a 'child' of that page. You can click on any page name shown on the sitemap to go to that page.

Finding related information

On many pages of the website some words or phrases will be underlined: usually these link to other pages on the Rivers Project website that contain more about that subject, although sometimes we link to external websites where we consider their information to be useful.