Accessibility

Accessibility

Cunninghame Housing Association is committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of technology or ability. We are actively working to increase the accessibility and usability of our website and in doing so adhere to many of the available standards and guidelines such as The Disability Discrimination Act 1995:

• Our pages are designed so that they can be viewed at a screen resolution of 800 x 600 pixels.
• 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 (see below for instructions).
• 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 essential information is exclusively conveyed using graphics.
• A Site Map is available to provide information about the layout of the website.

This site has been built using code compliant with W3C standards for XHTML and CSS. The site displays correctly in current browsers and using standards compliant XHTML/CSS code means any future browsers will also display it correctly.

Whilst the Association strive to adhere to the accepted guidelines and standards for accessibility and usability, it is not always possible to do so in all areas of the website.”

We are continually seeking out solutions that will bring all areas of the site up to the same level of overall accessibility. In the meantime should you experience any difficulty in accessing the Cunninghame Housing Association web site, please don’t hesitate to Contact Us.

Screen Readers

The website has been tested to be compatible with the following screenreaders; JAWS, Windows Eyes, HAL and Supernova.  Should you experience any problem, please don't hesitate to call us on 01294 468 360 or contact us on via our Enquiry Form .

The website has also been configured for Browsealoud, to download the free software, please follow this link: Download Browsealoud .

Browsers

Our website has been tested to ensure that we support a range of browser and operating system combinations. The following browsers have been tested: Microsoft Internet Explorer v6 and above; Firefox v2 and above on Windows platforms only (NT4, 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP) not Macintosh computers.  We will add more browsers to the list above as we continue to test.

Text Size

We have included a text size tool on all pages, however you can also change text size from your browser, this lets you change the text size on the pages.

Internet Explorer

Go to View > Text size and then select an appropriate text size (e.g. Larger or Largest). 

Mozilla Firefox

Go to View > Text size and then select Increase or Decrease. 

For both browsers you can also use Control and '+' or '-'.

If you are using a mouse which has a scrollable wheel you can increase the text size by holding down the CONTROL key and moving the wheel in either direction to increase or decrease the text on the page.

Controlling text & colours in your browser

You can specify the font sizes, styles and colours and foreground and background colours of web pages displayed on your computer screen. This is useful if you have low vision, need larger fonts, or need high-contrast colours.

Internet Explorer

Go to Tools > Internet Options > General and click on the 'Accessibility…' button.   To change your font colour, check the box marked 'Ignore colours specified on Web pages'  Click on the 'Colours…' button.  Uncheck the box next to 'Use Windows colours', and select your own Text, Background and link colours from those available.  Click on the 'OK' button on this tab and then on the 'OK' button on the Internet Options tab.

Mozilla Firefox

Go to the Tools menu, select Options, open the General menu and select Fonts and colours. Here you can change the text colour as well as the type of font.

Screen resolution

We suggest minimum display settings for the pages are 800x600 and 16-bit colour (Medium or Thousands of Colours depending on your operating system). Please consult your computer's help files or supplier's instructions for setting your display options.

Display problems

Some of the features incorporated in the site may not work with earlier browser versions that do not support cascading style sheets. Please consult your browser help files and supplier information to ensure that your browser supports these.

Portable Document Format (PDF) documents

We have made every effort to make our PDFs as accessible as possible, using bookmarks to aid navigation and tags to allow people using screen readers to access the content. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer to be able to view a publication in PDF format. If you don't have Acrobat Reader, you can download the Adobe Acrobat Viewer for free.

It is possible to have a PDF converted to html by Adobe on their website – please visit go to Adobe Conversion Tools. To use this facility, navigate to the document on our website that you want to convert, click on it and copy the URL from the address bar at the top of your browser into the form. Although this type of conversion may be useful for some users, we cannot guarantee that documents will convert to html without problems.  Adobe also have helpful information on the accessibility features of Acrobat, at the Adobe Accessibility Page.