CWEA Website Accessibility Statement

CWEA is committed to equal opportunities for all and providing an accessible website that can be used fully and easily by everyone regardless of ability or disability. This accessibility statement refers to the website domain www.cwea.org.uk and describes what we have already done to make this website accessible and what we are doing to improve its accessibility in the future. CWEA also has a separate Equal Opportunities Policy that is available on request.

The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 requires that you take "reasonable measures" to ensure the accessibility of your website. We do this by seeking to attain the Priority 1 and Priority 2 requirements of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).

The guidelines that we aim to meet are:

1. Priority 1 requirements of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (WCAG 1.0). (Level A compliance.)
2. As many Priority 2 requirements of the WCAG 1.0 as possible (Level AA compliance).
3. The best practice guidelines described in the British Standards Institution’s Publicly Available Specification 78 (PAS 78).

Current Accessibility Levels

The site is developed using valid XHTML and cascading style sheets (CSS). Our site content is separated from presentational elements, which makes it available to any visitors that use technologies such as a screen reader or text only browser. You may confirm the validity of our XHTML and CSS using these links:

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer

http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/check/referer

Access Keys

This site supports a subset of the UK Government's access keys standard, as follows:

1 - Home Page
2 - News
3 - Site Map
4 - Search
5 - About this Website
6 - Help
8 - Terms and Conditions
9 - Contact Us
0 - Access Key Details.

We do not support 'S - Skip navigation' because the navigation is placed after the page content.

Future Development

The website will be tested with a variety of users of varying abilities.
The website will be tested with a variety of web browsers.
We will endeavour to ensure that our website continues to be accessible as new technologies and guidelines are developed.
We welcome the comments of all our users and will use these to influence the ongoing improvement and ease of use of the site.

Feedback

If you have any questions or feedback about the accessibility of the CWEA website, we would like to hear from you. Please contact the Webmaster on info@cwea.org.uk or telephone our offices on 01606 738083.