After Adoption: Helping everyone affected by adoption
It’s important for After Adoption to make our website accessible to people with disabilities. We achieve this by complying with the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
WAI provides a detailed list of priorities to achieve accessibility. Many of these priorities are quite technical in nature, but the following points provide examples of the kind of measures we have taken to ensure ease of access;
• Labelling images so that blind people can understand a web page (you can see this when you hover your pointer over a picture and a small piece of text appears – if it makes sense to you then it would to a blind person because text-to-speech software would read it to them)
• Colour choice – there are various colours that partially blind and colour blind people cannot see, we have avoided these
• We use simple English
• If tables are used then the rows and columns are labelled appropriately
• The use of applets and scripts are not used and we use style sheets to control layout and presentation – so that users get ‘used’ to the way a page is laid out
• We use relative rather than absolute units in markup language attribute values and style sheet property values. This means that when a page is viewed in different screen resolutions it still makes sense and users who wish to increase the font size in a web page can do so
• We use navigation mechanisms consistently (search boxes always top right for example)
Hide my visit
We have created a ‘Hide My Visit’ button which allows a site visitor to exit the site immediately - if someone is approaching the computer and you do not want them to know what you are looking at, the screen switches to another website. This button has been programmed so that it acts immediately, irrespective of the speed of the site being diverted to.
Please note: It is not possible for our safety functions to remove all traces of your visit from your browsers
Text only version
The creation of a text only version of this website was considered and a decision was made to only provide a normal version of the site. By keeping the graphics small, and following accessibility guidelines, we have ensured that users who are partially sighted or blind can still reach our information in this single format.
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