Accessibility Policy
Thank you for visiting the British Marine
Federation website.
The British Marine Federation takes pride
in the accessibility of its website, and is committed to ensuring
that the British Marine Federation website is accessible to
everyone, including individuals with disabilities. This site has
been designed with a number of accessibility features which are
listed below.
If you have any questions regarding this
Accessibility Policy, or if you have any difficulties accessing
content on our website or have trouble using any aspect of the
website, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Standards compliance
We seek to meet the Priority A, AA, and
selected AAA guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines. Our website is tested on a regular basis using a
combination of automated tools to identify potential problem areas
and manual testing to ensure we meet the spirit as well as the
letter of the W3C's accessibility guidelines.
Links to other websites
Please note that the British Marine Federation
website contains links to other Internet websites. Those websites
are not owned, operated, controlled or reviewed by the British
Marine Federation, and their webpages may not be fully compliant
with our Accessibility Policy. The Accessibility Policies of those
websites, and not the British Marine FederationAccessibility
Policy, define the accessibility features and any questions or
concerns should be directed to that website's owner.
Access options page:
You can use the access options page to easily
change this site to meet your needs. You can change the text size;
change the colour scheme; use access keys to navigate the site; and
use a choice of text-to-speech systems.
Alternative text
Images on our website have alternative text
attributes, often known as alt text. This means that when an image
is used on a web page to convey information its content is also
described in the alt text. When you use alt text the image can be
understood by text browsers and assistive technologies such as
screen readers. If an image is used for simply decorative purposes,
the text attribute for the image is left empty in line with
accepted best practice.
Readable and resizable fonts and
layout
The British Marine Federation website uses
font sizes that you can control using your web browser.
You can change font size by clicking on the
"A", "A+", and "A++" links at the bottom of each webpage on the
British Marine Federation website. "A" shows the webpage at its
normal size, "A+" shows the webpage at a 120% zoom and "A++" shows
the webpage at a 140% zoom.
You can also manually change the text size
through your web browser.
To change the text size in Microsoft Internet
Explorer select View > Text size followed by your preferred text
size from Smallest to Largest. The default setting is Medium.
You can change the text size in Mozilla
Firefox and other Mozilla-based browsers by selecting View >
Text size followed by Increase or Decrease. To return the text size
to its default setting, select Normal.
The fonts on www.britishmarine.co.uk have
been chosen for their legibility on computer screens. The layout
has been designed to stretch to fill the width of the browser, so
that you can resize the browser to suit your own viewing
preferences.
Minimising the use of
images:
Live text is used rather than graphics
wherever possible to reduce page download time and to increase your
control over text size.
User-testing
Print page options:
A print page facility is provided on every
page of the website. The size of the print text will reflect the
text option you have selected within the website. For example, if
you have large print selected on the website, the print page
facility will print in large print.