Website Accessibility

The Red Lion website has been designed with accessibility issues in mind and has been tested in various ways to meet accessibility standards.

General

• All pages on this site aim to comply with all priority 1, 2, and in most cases, 3 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). Please bear in mind that many of these guidelines are intentionally vague and can therefore not really be tested automatically.
• All pages on this site validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional, and use CSS 2.1 for visual presentation. Tables are not used for non-tabular information anywhere on the site.
• All pages on this site use structured semantic markup.
• Pages can be navigated and their content read without requiring the use of a mouse.
• All pages have been compatibility tested in a range of browsers including: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Opera.

Visual design

• Cascading styles sheets are used for visual layout.
• If stylesheets are unsupported by your browser, the content of the pages is still readable.
• Images used only as part of the overall site design have null ALT attributes

Text size

• For those with a wheel-equipped mouse, text size can be adjusted by holding down the CONTROL key on the keyboard and moving the mouse wheel accordingly.
• Text size can also be adjusted using the browser's own function.
• Font sizes used are relative.

Images

• Content images (i.e. those not used for overal site design) used on this site include descriptive ALT and TITLE attributes.

Navigation

• All adjacent navigation links are separated by non-links.

Links

• Where required, links employ title attributes to describe the destination in greater detail.
• Links are written to still make sense, even out of context.
• Where the destination of a given link will take the user to a new window, this is clearly indicated for the visually impaired.
• Adjacent links are always separated by non-link text.

Forms

• For those without a mouse, all form input fields can be tabbed to.
• All of the input elements in the forms on this site are marked up with label tags.

Printing

• All pages are printer friendly and should print without issue on standard A4 paper.
• Elements not required in a printed document (such as site navigation) are removed upon print.

Client-side scripting

• Use of client-side scripts (such as Javascript) has been kept to a minimum.
• Where possible, Javascript used has been made unobtrusive.

Credits

• For more about accessible web design visit the excellent Dive into Accessibility website.