Accessibility
Accessibility Statement.

We are committed to ensuring that our website is accessible to everyone. If you have any questions or suggestions regarding the accessibility of this site, please use our contact form, as we are continually striving to improve the experience for all of our visitors.

–  All pages on this site follow priorities 1 & 2 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
–  All pages on this site use structured semantic markup.

Structural Markup.

Web pages on omdesign.co.uk include 3 different areas:

– A header bar that includes the main navigation,
– A main content area,
– A footer.

When CSS (Cascading Styles Sheets) are not applied to a document (or when using a screen reader), the 4 areas are read in the above order.

Images.

– Unless they are purely decorative items, all images used on this website have suitable alt attributes.
– Content should be usable/accessible with images “off” (disabled).

Links.

– Many links have title attributes which describe the link in greater detail, unless the text of the link already fully describes the target.
– URLs are permanent whenever possible.

Forms.

– All form controls are appropriately and explicitly labeled.
– We provide an email address as an alternative form of access for our online forms.
– Form validation routine does not rely on client-side script.

Scripts.

– We are using non obtrusive client-side scripts.

Visual design.

– This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.
– Any information conveyed through the use of colour is also available without colour (i.e. text based).

Accessibility references.

W3 accessibility guidelines, which explains the reasons behind each guideline.
W3 accessibility techniques, which explains how to implement each guideline.