Premier Apartments Sandyford Accessibility

The Premier Apartments Sandyford website for long or short lets is designed to be fully accessible to all. The site is designed in accordance with the W3C WAI Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and conforms to most priority 1,2 and 3 checkpoints.

Navigation shortcuts

The site can be navigated by using the tab key to traverse the elements of the each page, and by using the enter key to activate a highlighted link. The main links each have an access key.

Access keys

Access keys may be used to navigate the site without the aid of a mouse. These are activated in different ways on different platforms. In Internet Explorer or Mozilla based browsers on Windows, you can press ALT + an access key. on a Macintosh, you can press Control + an access key. Then press Enter to activate the link.

Below are the access keys currently in use on this site:

• 1- Home Page
• 2- Location
• 3- Local Attractions
• 4- Contact Us
• 5- Special Offers
• 6- Reviews
  
• 7- Booking
• 8- Facilities
• 9- Services
• 0- Accessibility Statement

Structured, semantic markup

HTML heading tags are used to convey document structure. Navigation menus are tagged as HTML maps so that the menu title can be read out, and the menu items presented as a group.

Images

All content images include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics include null alt attributes.

Javascript

For users whose browser does not support Javascript, online booking may be done by clicking the "booking" link on the main menu, rather than by using the booking form on the left hand side of the page.

Standards compliance

Accessibility references

• W3 accessibility guidelines, which explains the reasons behind each guideline.
• W3 accessibility techniques, which explains how to implement each guideline.
• W3 accessibility checklist, a busy developer's guide to accessibility.
• U.S. Federal Government Section 508 accessibility guidelines.

Accessibility software and services

• Bobby, a free service to analyze web pages for compliance to accessibility guidelines.
• HTML Validator, a free service for checking that web pages conform to published HTML standards.
• Web Page Backward Compatibility Viewer, a tool for viewing your web pages without a variety of modern browser features.
• JAWS, a screen reader for Windows. A time-limited demo is available.
• Lynx, a free text-only web browser.