Accessibility of this website- Embrace Young Mums
We are committed to making our website more accessible and support the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). Embrace Young Mums website has been designed to meet as many WAI recommendations as possible.
Text Size
This site uses only relative font sizes and therefore is compatible with the user-specified text size option in visual browsers. The text size can be changed in Internet Explorer through the View > Text Size menu. And in Mozilla/Netscape, through the View > Text Zoom menu.
To increase the text size of this site, simply hold the CTRL key (PC) or CMD key (MAC) and use your mouse scroller up or down.
Access Keys - Keyboard Shortcuts
Most browsers support jumping to specific links by typing keys defined on the web site. On Windows, you can press "ALT + an access key" on Macintosh, you can press "Control + an access key".
Note: Internet Explorer users may also need to hit the "enter" key to activate a link.
On all pages of our site, you can use the following access keys:
- 1 - Home
- 2 - What we do
- 3 - Make a referral
- 4 - Contact Us
- 5 - Baby Equipment
- 6 - Worried that you are pregnant?
- 7 - Useful Links
- 8 - Meet the team
- 9 - Site Map
- 0 - Accessibility Page
- S - Use this to skip past the navigation and go to the content on each page
Alt text
Images used to illustrate content include the alt attribute to provide descriptive text alternatives. Images that have a decorative function have an 'empty' alt attribute.
Link Titles
Title attributes are included in links to describe the link in greater detail. Where the link itself is explanation enough, we have not included a title atttribute
Javascript
The site uses no client-side scripting. We have no popup windows, or client-side form validation.
Web Standards
This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout and is built to W3C standards. The XHTML and CSS is valid and the site, according to our judgement of the guidelines, complies with the WAI level 3 accessibility guidelines.
Browser Compatibility
This site has been tested in all modern browsers on Windows, MacOS and Linux. Pages on this site benefit from structured semantic markup. This means that if your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets, the content of each page is still readable and is presented in a logical order. You can choose to switch off stylesheets in many modern browsers if you so wish.