A3060 Castle Lane West

Accessibility Help

This is the official accessibility statement for http://www.castlepointshopping.com/.

We take accessibility seriously and have done much to make our website as inclusive as possible through the inclusion of accessibility tools. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to email Customer Services at mail#castlepointshopping.com

Textic Toolbox The Textic Toolbox, which you can find on each page of this site includes several useful features to make the site more accessible to visitors.
  • This website talks! Simply click the button labelled 'Switch Talking Text On' and point to some text with your mouse to hear it read to you in a clear life-like voice. Click the button again to switch off the text reader.
  • Save main story as MP3. Click this button to save the main text on the page as an audio file which you can listen to later, or even copy to your iPod!
  • Increase text size. Click this button to cycle through various text sizes until you find one that suits your preferences.
  • Change background colour. Select one of these colour to adjust background colour to suit your reading preferences.
Access keys Castlepoint Shopping Centre does not currently support Access keys. Standards compliance
  1. All pages on this site are WCAG A approved, complying with all priority 1 and most of priority 2 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. This is a judgement call; many guidelines are intentionally vague and cannot be tested automatically. Auto Trader has reviewed the guidelines and believes all pages are in compliance (please see point 5).
  2. Most  pages on this site validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional. A program can determine with 100 per cent accuracy whether a document is valid XHTML.
  3. Most pages on this site use Valid CSS. A program can determine with 100 per cent accuracy whether a stylesheet is valid CSS.
  4. All pages on this site use structured semantic markup. H1 tags are used for main titles, H2 tags for subtitles. For example, on this page, JAWS users can skip to the next section within the accessibility statement by pressing ALT+INSERT+3.
  5. Applications other than at the following address "http://www.castlepointshopping.com/" may not be standards compliant, but are constantly under review and in the process of being updated for accessibility.
  Browser text-sizing tool Some popular browsers feature a text resizing tool in the toolbar; we have added extra accessibility tools using the Textic readability toolbox with website vocalisation controls. With these tools you can resize text on screen to a level you feel comfortable with. Just click on the icon, and select a new size. This tool is also available in the menu of various browsers as follows:
  • Internet Explorer 5, 5.5, 6, 7 (PC): View > Text Size
  • Firefox, Netscape 8: View > Text Size
  • Opera: View > Zoom
  • Netscape 6, 7, Mozilla: View > Text Zoom
  • Safari (Mac): View > Make Text Bigger
  • Internet Explorer 5 (Mac): View > Text Zoom
  Tab key You can also use the Tab key on your keyboard to move between links on a page. A single press of Tab high-lights the next link, Shift+Tab high-lights the previous link.     Visual design
  1. This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout
  2. This site uses only relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified "text size" option in visual browsers
  3. If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets, the content of each page is still readable
  Accessibility references
  1. W3 accessibility guidelines explains the reasons behind each guideline
  2. W3 accessibility techniques explains how to implement each guideline
  3. W3 accessibility checklist a busy developer's guide to accessibility
  4. U.S. Federal Government Section 508 accessibility guidelines
  Accessibility software
  1. JAWS is a screen reader for Windows. A time-limited, downloadable demo is available
  2. Home Page Reader is a screen reader for Windows. A downloadable demo is available
  3. Lynx is a free text-only web browser for blind users with refreshable Braille displays
  4. Links is a free text-only web browser for visual users with low bandwidth
  5. Opera is a visual browser with many accessibility-related features, including text zooming, user stylesheets and image toggle. A free downloadable version is available. It is compatible with Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and several other operating systems.
  Accessibility services
  1. HTML Validator is a free service for checking web pages conform to published HTML standards
  2. Web Page Backward Compatibility Viewer is a tool for viewing your web pages without a variety of modern browser features
  3. Lynx Viewer is a free service for viewing what your web pages would look like in Lynx