Accessibility

The internet is becoming an increasingly important part of our lives, and Headway believes that it should be accessible to everyone. We have designed this website to meet a high standard of accessibility - the W3C Web Access Initiative's AA standard. This means it is designed to help people overcome the barriers caused by their disabilities, including visual, auditory, physical, speech, cognitive, and neurological disabilities.

This page explains some of the features you can use on this site. It also includes some useful links at the bottom of the page to help you understand web accessibility and find any software you need to make the most of it.

Accessible features on this site

Text resizing

All of the text on this website responds to the size set in your browser.

There are a number of ways to change the size of the text.

To do this:

• In all browsers, you can click the '+' or '-' buttons at the top of every page on our website.
• In Internet Explorer 7 or 8, go to Page -> Text size, and select your preferred size.
• In Firefox 3+, go to View > Zoom, with Zoom Text Only enabled, and then zoom in or out.
• Other browsers may have different ways of changing text size, so check the help files for more information
• Most modern browsers include a 'zoom' feature, which can be especially helpful if you have problems seeing images as well as text.

Tab accessible browsing

You can browse the site using the Tab key on your keyboard, instead of your mouse.

To do this:

• Press Tab repeatedly to cycle through all of the buttons in your browser and the links on our website.
• Press Shift + Tab to cycle the other way.
• You will see the selected link highlighted in green.
• Press Enter to select this link.

High contrast style sheet

This website includes a high contrast version, which allows people to see the site on a dark background with yellow text. This can be much easier to read for people with visual difficulties.

To view the high contrast version:

• Click the 'High contrast' link that appears at the top of every page, next to the search bar and text size buttons.
• To return to the standard contrast version, click the 'Standard contrast' link, which appears near the top of the high contrast pages.

No images style sheet

This website will display correctly for people who choose not to display images, or who use software that cannot display them.

Non JavaScript alternatives to all functionality

Whenever a page uses JavaScript, there is an alternative way to access the feature, for instance by using standard links.

Content design

All of the pages on this site have been desinged with accessibility in mind, from the headers we use to the descriptive links and alternative text for images.