Accessibility

Whitburn Golf Club have tried to make this website as accessible as possible to all users with disabilities, including users who may be blind or partially sighted.

The website has been designed to meet accessibility guidelines issued by the W3C which is an international organisation that develops standards for the Internet.

Guidance Conformance

This website conforms to the WC3-WAI Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 Level A, as indicated by the W3C WAI logo. Pages bearing this logo indicate a claim of conformance by the page author or content provider to conformance level A of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 including all Priority 1 checkpoints defined in the Guidelines. The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines explain how to make Web Content accessible to users with disabilities. Conformance to these guidelines will help make the web more accessible to users with disabilities and will benefit all users.

In addition to conforming with the W3C guidelines, this website also conforms to the guidelines of Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act which requires agencies and organisations to make information available to people with disabilities.

Access Keys:

Some users may not be able to use pointing devices such as the mouse, therefore in order to assist user's access particular sections of the website, Access Keys have been built into the site. The way in which the Access Keys are used depends on the browser you are using to view this site.

For windows systems if you're using Netscape 6+, Mozilla or Internet Explorer 4 then press Alt and the desired Access Key at the same time. If however you're using Internet Explorer 5 or 6, then press Alt and the desired Access Key followed by pressing Enter. For Macintosh based systems press the CTRL key and then the desired Access Key.

The following is a list of the Access Keys available:

  1. Skip Navigation: S
  2. Accessibility: 0
  3. Site Home: 1
  4. Site Map: 3
  5. Feedback: 9

Validation

You can see an additional badge from the W3C, saying "CSS" with a tick. This badge is a symbol of the validated syntax code of this website, meaning that the "CSS" code used to create the website is valid and used correctly to aid in the websites accessibility.

The conformance level of this website has been validated from five sources:

  1. The A-Prompt validation program
  2. The Bobby online validator
  3. The Cynthia automated validator
  4. The WebXACT validator
  5. Human validation

Browsers

This website has been tested for compatibility with the following browsers:

  1. Internet Explorer version 6.0
  2. Netscape version 7.2
  3. Mozilla Firefox version 1.0
  4. Opera version 7.54u1

The website is best viewed at the following screen resolutions:

  1. 1024x768 pixels
  2. 800x600 pixels

Text Sizing

This website has a text sizing function builting into your browser. If you are having difficulty reading the text on this page and would like to increase the size of the text do the following:

Internet Explorer

  1. Click the "View" menu at the top of the browser window
  2. Select "Text Size" from the menu
  3. In the sub-menu that appears select which size text you want to use, Smallest, Smaller, Larger, or Largest ( Medium is the default)

Alternatively hold down the CTRL key on your keyboard and use the mouse wheel to increase/decrease the text size of this website.

Firefox

  1. Click the "View" menu at the top of the browser window
  2. Select "Text Size" from the menu
  3. Select "Increase" or "Decrease" to alter the size of the text

Alternatively hold down the CTRL key on your keyboard and use the mouse wheel to increase/decrease the text size of this website.

Netscape 7

  1. Click the "View" menu at the top of the browser window
  2. Select "Text Zoom" from the menu
  3. In the sub-menu that appears select which text size you want to use
  4. Alternatively select "Other" and manually enter the text size that you want to use (as a percentage of the original)

Alternatively hold down the CTRL key on your keyboard and use the mouse wheel to increase/decrease the text size of this website.

Skip Navigation:

Screen readers often have difficulty when reading websites that contain a lot of navigation links, therefore a Skip Navigation link has been built in. The Skip Navigation link will quite literally allow users of screen readers to jump over all the navigation links so they don't have to listen to a long list of links before getting to the information held on the page.

Acronyms and Abbreviations

As part of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, all acronyms and abbreviations must have their full meaning specified. Therefore, each abbreviation and acronym on this website will appear in blue text.When the mouse hovers over it, the cursor will change to include a question mark, and a tooltip will appear stating the complete meaning of the abbreviation or acronym.

Printer Friendly

This website has been designed to be 100% printer friendly. You will have most likely encountered websites were you have printed off a page and some of the text will disappear or you had all the images and layout of the website printed onto the page making it difficult to read. This website will not do this, when you print off a page all layout and graphics are removed from the page and the information will be printed in a clear font.