Accessibility

We have made every effort to make the Armed Forces Day website accessible and easy to use for everyone.

Our aspiration is to conform to the Guidelines for UK government websites and the Worldwide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, Level AA, and to ensure that this Web accessibility standard is achieved and maintained. This includes:

Page structure is conveyed using header elements.
A stylesheet is used on our website and relative font sizes on all text with the exception of graphical text.
Text can be increased or decreased in size by using the "view" option in your browser.
Images that convey important information have alternative text. Where an image is used for a decorative purpose the alternative text will be left blank.
No information is exclusively conveyed using colour.
A sitemap is available to provide information about the layout of the website.

Access keys

0: Accessiblity (this page)
1: Home
2: I'm supporting
3: About
4: Supporters
5: Events
6: Event organisers
7: News & features
8: Site map
T: Terms & conditions
C: Contact us
H: Help for Veterans
S: Skip to content

Browsers for PCs

Firefox 2+: Hold down the SHIFT key and the ALT key and then press the access key
Firefox 1.5 for PCs: Hold down the ALT key and press the access key
Opera 9+: Hold SHIFT and the ESC key and the list of access keys will appear
Internet Explorer 5+: Hold down the ALT key, press the access key, release both keys then press ENTER

Browsers for Macs

Firefox 2+: Hold down the SHIFT key and the ALT key and then press the access key
Firefox 1.5: Hold down the CTRL key and press the access key
Safari: Hold down the CTRL key and press the access key
Opera 9+: Hold SHIFT and the ESC key and the list of access keys will appear

Software to open documents

This website provides links to documents in portable document format (PDF). To read PDF documents with a screen reader please link to the Access Adobe website which provides useful tools and resources. Adobe also has a free online conversion tool for PDFs.

Text to Speech

armedforcesday.org.uk is speech enabled using Browsealoud, a free plug-in which reads web pages aloud.

Browsealoud currently supports the following browsers:

IE4 upwards
All MSN versions
All Compuserve versions
All AOL versions
Mozilla
Firefox
Netscape 4 upwards

To begin using Browsealoud to read content from the Veterans Day website download the free plug-in. Users of Apple’s Safari browser should use the built-in Text to Speech function.