Accessibility

The CHYPP's website has been designed to be accessible to the whole community and complies with the latest Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

Should you encounter any issues accessing any of these pages, please contact our administrator with details of the technology you are using and issues you are facing.

Help with Accessibility Features

Navigation

• The main left-hand navigation menu is present on all website pages, thus providing easy access to the 'main website areas'.  Sub-pages associated with these 'main website areas' are accessed through the subpage menu items in the main left-hand menu.  These will only appear once the associated 'main website area' has been activated. 
• Members will need to first login to access a range of services in the Membership Area. 
• The website uses a breadcrumb navigation system to help identify your location on the website and navigate back to previous pages.
• A search facility on the homepage, provides quick access to documents.  Once a search query has been entered the search results can be filtered and further advance search options become available.
• A Site Map is available at the bottom right of all webpages.
• Skip navigation link provided above the main left-hand navigation, provides people using screen readers with the ability to skip over the main menu items of the website, directly accessing the webpage content.

Resize Website

The website can be set to fill 90% of your monitors width by using the fluid width button in the top right hand side of all webpages. See below for further details on zooming and changing the size of the text.

Resizable fonts

The size of type on all CHYPP's webpages can be changed. Please see below for details of how to change these settings in the latest versions of the most common browsers or use our A- and A+ buttons located for your convenience at the top of every page.

Microsoft Internet Explorer - all versions

Menu item: View/ Text Size / Small, Medium, Large or Largest

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 also includes the facility to zoom the whole page. This is achieved by the following key combination:

• Ctrl and ‘+’ to enlarge
• Ctrl and ‘-’ to reduce
• Ctrl and ‘0’ to reset to default

Mozilla Firefox 3

Menu item: View/ Zoom / Zoom In, Zoom Out, Reset or Zoom Text Only

Note that if ‘Zoom Text Only’ has been selected then all Zoom Controls relate solely to the resizing of the text. If ‘Zoom Text Only’ has not been selected then the Zoom Controls relate to the resizing of the whole webpage.

Key Combination can also be used:

• Ctrl and ‘+’ to enlarge
• Ctrl and ‘-’ to reduce
• Ctrl and ‘0’ to reset to default

Apple Safari - all versions

Menu Item: View/ Make Text Bigger' or Make Text Smaller

Key combinations:

• Apple Key and ‘+’ to enlarge
• Apple Key and ‘-’ to reduce

Further Guidance

 ‘My Web My Way’ is a BBC resource which offers further guidance on controlling accessibility functions on a range of browsers. In addition to zoom/text sizing controls the site provides instructions for the control of font, colours, style sheets and text to speech software.

The RNIB also offer guidance on alternative screen magnification software and techniques available.

Standards Compliance

The CHYPP's website uses CSS, XHTML 1.0 transitional and conforms with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, level Double A.

The website has been tested on Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Opera and Safari.