Accessibility Guidelines
Glasgow Association for Mental Health is committed to providing its
online facilities to serve the largest possible audience.
Our website is designed to meet the guidelines provided by the World Wide Web Consortium and has also been developed in consultation with the RNIB.
We are constantly working to improve access for our audience. If you use a technology that is not compatible with this site please help us to improve our service by emailing itsupport@gamh.org.uk.- Accessibility Conformance
- Accessibility Features
- Abbreviations and Acronyms
- Colours
- Font size
- Forms and fields
- Headings
- Images
- JavaScript
- Links
- Navigation
- Navigation menus
- Style Sheets
- Tables
- PC Security
Accessibility Conformance
To ensure our website is as accessible as possible we have made significant changes to achieve a Conformance Level "A" of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines on http://www.gamh.org.uk. Most pages adhere to Conformance Level "A" but the majority of pages achieve a Conformance Level "Double-A" or "Triple-A".
Accessibility Features
We have introduced several features to ensure the best use of our site by all of our website users:
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Abbreviation and acronym tags have been used where appropriate to ensure abbreviations and acronyms are given a full textual explanation.
We have also ensured that block quotes are only ever used for identifying quotations. They are not used for formatting purposes.
Colours
We have taken care to ensure that the site's font and background colour
combinations contrast significantly and are effective in ensuring information is
still clear when viewed in different colour combinations. If you wish to
override the site's colours, you can do this by changing your browser settings
to your own preference.
Font size
Most of the font sizes we use on our site are sizeable. You can change the font size to make it either larger or smaller via your browser settings.
You can change the font size in the following ways depending on your browser:
- In Internet Explorer; select View, then Text Size, and then your preferred size.
- In Netscape; select View, then Text Zoom, and then your preferred percentage size.
Forms and fields
All forms fields follow a logical tab sequence to ensure easy navigation.
Most form fields also have 'label' and 'id' attributes to explicitly associate the form field with its label to allow for easy entry of data.
Headings
HTML heading tags are used to convey document structure. H1 tags are used for main titles, H2 tags for subtitles etc.
Images
All images used in this site include descriptive alt tag attributes. Where an image has no use other than being decorative the alt tag is set to null to allow easy reading of the site by all users.
JavaScript
The use of Java script has been kept to an absolute minimum. Where it is used then all pages and process are still accessible should JavaScript be turned off.
Enabling JavaScript
To enable JavaScript in Microsoft Internet Explorer, follow these steps:
- Start Internet Explorer and select 'Tools', ' Internet Options' from the menu
- Click on the 'Security' tab, then click the globe icon to select the Internet zone
- click on the 'Custom level' button to inspect the detailed option settings
- Scroll down to the 'Scripting' section and ensure that 'Active scripting' is enabled. If the 'Enable' radio button is not already selected, click on it to select it
- Click 'OK' to close the 'Security Settings' dialogue. If you see a warning dialogue 'Are you sure you want to change the security settings for this zone?' click on the 'Yes' button
- Click 'OK' to close the 'Internet Options' dialogue
- Close and restart your Internet Explorer session for any changes to take effect
Enabling JavaScript in Netscape
To enable JavaScript in Netscape
Navigator, follow these steps:
- Start Netscape Navigator and select 'Edit', 'Preferences' from the menu
- Select 'Advanced' from the 'Category' box
- Ensure that there is a tick in the box next to 'Enable JavaScript'. If it is not ticked, click the box to select it
- Click 'OK' to close the 'Preferences' dialogue
Close and restart your Netscape Navigator session for any changes to take effect.
Links
All links have been written to make sense when taken out of context. Where
appropriate, we have also added link title attributes to describe the link in
greater detail.
Navigation
A hidden menu has been placed at the beginning of each page to allow screen reader users to link to the main areas of the page. A hidden link has also been provided at the beginning of each page to provide easy access to information on our accessibility guidelines.
Navigation menus
Navigation menus are marked up as HTML lists. This ensures that the number of links in the list is read out at the start and it can be skipped easily.
Style Sheets
This site uses cascading style sheets for all visual lay out. If your browser or browsing device does not support style sheets at all, the use of structured semantic mark up ensures that the content of each page is still readable and clearly structured.
You can apply your own style sheet onto this website by:
- Internet Explorer;
- Select Tools, then Internet Options, then Accessibility.
- Click on any or all 3 checkboxes to ignore colours, font styles or font sizes.
- Within the same window you can change your style sheet by clicking the checkbox that says, 'format document using my style sheet' then browse to your style sheet and click OK.
- In Netscape;
- Select Edit, then Preferences and then Appearance.
- Specify your own colours and fonts.
Tables
No tables have been used within this website.