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Accessibility Statement
Welcome to The BIG Bathroom Shop's Accessibility Statement. Our website has been designed to help those people with disabilities overcome some of the barriers the internet can present. Our site is Double-AA compliant and should be accessible by most people, regardless of their ability or the methods they use to browse the internet.
If you have any problems accessing this site or any of the information contained
within it, please contact us on
Email: info@thebigbathroomshop.com or
Call: 0113 240 3340 and we’ll do our best to rectify any issues you
may have. We are always keen to continue improving accessibility to our services,
so we also welcome any feedback you can provide us with that will help us
to make our services easier to use for everyone.
Navigational Aids
All pages contained within this site provide the following:
- A link to the site map.
- A link to this accessibility statement.
- A link to the home page.
- ‘Breadcrumb’ links (or signpost trail) to help users understand
where they are in relation to the home page. These also provide the opportunity
to instantly go back to any point within the trail.
Links
- Colour alone is not used to signify the presence of a link.
- Links are written to make sense out of context.
- The site map provides alternative access to pages within this site. This
ensures that if links stop working, the pages will remain accessible.
- No links open in a new window without alerting the user first.
Access Keys
Access keys provide instant links to important pages. They are useful for
everyone but especially those users who don’t use a mouse or other
pointing devices, such as head wands.
Access keys are activated in different ways, depending on which browser you are using and whether you are using a Macintosh or Windows PC.
Most browsers support the following: Windows users can press ALT + an access key and Macintosh users can press CTRL (Control) + an access key. Please be aware that those people browsing with Internet Explorer may also need to press ENTER after they have entered their access key.
All pages on this site have the following access keys active:
Access key 1 - Home
Access key 2 - About Us
Access key 3 - The Team
Access key 4 - Showroom
Access key 5 - Product Ranges
Access key 6 - Offers
Access key 7 - Contact Us
Access key S - Site Map
Access key A - Accessibility
Access key E - Email
User Preferences
- This site uses font sizes that can be changed to suit your preference using
the ‘text size’ option found in most browsers.
- All pages are designed using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). If your browser
does not support style sheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.
- This site can be navigated using the tab button on your keyboard.
Images
All images and Flash elements in this site include descriptive ALT attributes.
Acronyms and Abbreviations
All acronyms and abbreviations on this site are accompanied by explanatory
text upon their first occurrence on a page.
Accessibility Software
The following accessibility software is available:
- JAWS, a screen reader for Windows. A time-limited, downloadable demo is
available.
- Window Eyes, a screen reader for Windows. A downloadable demo is available.
- Lynx, a free text-only web browser.
- Opera, a visual browser with many accessibility-related features, including
text zooming, user stylesheets, image toggle. A free downloadable version
is available. Compatible with Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and several other
operating systems.
Browsers
This website is compatible with the following browsers:
Internet Explorer 6
Opera 7.54
Mozilla 1.8
Firefox
Safari
Netscape Navigator 7.2
Web Accessibility Guidelines
These pages have been designed using the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
1.0 as stated by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). For all our pages we
are claiming a conformance level of Double-AA standard. If you have any problems
accessing the information on this site, please do get in touch.
Standards Compliance
This site has been verified for compliance against the guidelines stated
by the W3C in the following ways:
- Automatic check using the W3C’s facility (this cannot check for
all guidelines).
- Manual checks for those guidelines not measured using the automatic facility.
- Personal judgement calls for the more subjective guidelines.
After checks, this site has been graded with a Double-AA conformance standard.
