Accessibility Statement
RLR UK is committed to providing all of our users with equal access to
our website. Our website has been designed and built with accessibility as an
integral and essential aspect. To achieve this we have employed standard design
principles that ensure our web pages can be viewed and navigated effectively by
our users, independent of their device, software they are using or their
impairments.
We have based our accessibility standards on the Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 draft standard from the Web
Accessibility Initiative (WAI) - from the internationally recognised World
Wide Web Consortium (W3C). We have chosen to aim for the new emerging standard
and will strive to meet all criteria whenever possible, especially the level A
checkpoints. We believe that our website conforms to levels AA and AAA as well
and we will continue to monitor the draft and update our website accordingly.
Whilst we make every effort that we can to ensure our website is accessible,
please send us any feedback, comments or suggestions that you may have. We
welcome any feedback, whether positive or negative. Email all comments to:
webmaster@rlr-uk.com
Access Keys
The following access keys are implemented throughout the RLR UK website in
an attempt to help users using screen-readers and those less able to use a mouse
or other pointing device. Where possible, we have endeavoured to use standard
keys for particular purposes. If you find a page that does not conform to this
or you know of a standard that you think we may not be aware of, please let us
know via email to:
webmaster@rlr-uk.com
- '0' - Accessibility
- '1' or 'H' - Home Page
- '4' - Site Map
- '9' - Email us
- 'B' - Blog
- 'S' - Services
- 'E' - Training (Education)
- 'U' - Tools (Utilities)
- 'C' - Contact us
- 'T' - Terms of Use
- 'V' - Privacy statement
Using and Navigating Our Site
Our pages are designed so that you can change the size of the font used and
adjust other properties for better access for the visually impaired. Please
consult your browser help files for the required techniques.
Our website contains many links to other pages or sites. Apart from the main
menu toolbar and the information box on the right, these links are coloured red
otherwise they are white. In addition, all links are underlined when
hovering over them to make them more obvious. Links to non-RLR UK websites
or content will open in new windows, but all internal links will open in the
same window unless you choose otherwise. We have tried to make link text
descriptive wherever appropriate, but in cases where this isn't possible the
context of the link should help and a short descriptive text box will appear
clarifying the link.
On the left of the main navigation toolbar, at the top of every page, is a
navigable breadcrumb trail, to show you where you are in the hierarchy of the
site. You can click on any of the parent links to jump up to that page. The last
entry is the current page and is, therefore, not a link. We have also tried to
explain all terms and jargon that we use in the text. However, sometimes we will
use terms on our site that you may not be familiar with. In this case additional
pop-up text is included to explain terms and acronyms and will be denoted by a
dotted underline, e.g. PKI.
Scripting and Cookies
We try not to use scripting*, cookies or Flash on our site as these are
not accessible technologies and they are not available in all browsers or on all
platforms. Exceptions to this are the tools and statistics gathering (which can be
ignored without any effect on the user). All of our pages are valid
XHTML 1.0
Transitional, and we use CSS
for styling and layout. We do not use tables to layout the page, as these are
not accessible either. We invite you to check our validation with the
W3C validators using the
links at the bottom of every page. Please let us know if any fail validation
(Note there may be a problem with referring secure pages, but these can be
downloaded and validated).