Accessibility

The South East Media Network website has been designed with accessibility in mind. It has been coded to strict standards to ensure that it operates across multiple platforms and browsers, to enable all users to access content, regardless of any personal disability.

All publicly-accessible pages on this site should to conform to level Double-A of the W3C's "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0". If you find any pages which do not conform to these guidelines, please inform the webmaster.

This policy only applies to South East Media Network web pages. We cannot vouch for the accessibility of other websites linked to by these web pages.

Text size

All pages on this site use relative font sizes, so you can adjust the text size in your browser if you need to. To increase or decrease the text size in your web browser:

  • In Internet Explorer, go to View > Text Size.
  • In Netscape, go to View > Text Zoom.
  • In Opera, go to View > Zoom.

Access Keys

All pages on this site use the following "access keys" to provide keyboard shortcuts for common navigation tasks:

  • Access key 1 : Home page
  • Access key 2 : News
  • Access key 3 : Events
  • Access key 4 : Regional Projects
  • Access key 5 : Knowledge Bank
  • Access key 6 : About SEMN
  • Access key 7 : Access Key Information
  • Access key 8 : Jump to main page content

To use these keyboard shortcuts:

  • On Windows, press ALT + access key, then ENTER.
  • On Macintosh, press CTRL + access key, then ENTER.

Standards compliance

The South East Media Network has endeavoured to ensure that:

  • all publicly-accessible pages on this site comply with all Priority 1 and 2 checkpoints, as well as most of the Priority 3 checkpoints, of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (Double-A compliance)
  • all pages on this site validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional
  • all stylesheets used validate as CSS2
  • all pages on this site use structured semantic markup, e.g. h1 tags for main page headings, h2 tags for sub-headings, and so on.

If you find any pages which do not conform to these guidelines, please inform the webmaster.

Valid CSS Valid XHTML 1.0 Level Double-A conformance icon,
          W3C-WAI Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0

Layout and Presentation

This site uses cascading style sheets (CSS) for visual layout and presentation. Its visual design should be compatible with any up-to-date web browser.

If you are using a browser which does not support style sheets, or an older browser with poor stylesheet support (such as Netscape 4), the content of each page will still be readable, but you may not be able to view the visual design.