West Island Holidays - accessibility

Accessibility of our website

We want all to be able to use and have full access to this website.

Accordingly, this website meets the standards of the World Wide Web Consortium for CSS and XHTML 1.0.

More details on accessibilty standards can be found at the World Wide Web Consortium's website.

Accessibility: West Island Holidays acknowledges that is has responsibilities to make its website as accessible as possible. Firstly, to accommodate the needs of the disabled by taking steps to ensure that, where possible, their experience of its website is able to match that of any other 'visitor' to this site. Secondly, to ensure that the presentation of materials on West Island Holiday's' website is compatible with the computing resources used by its visitors. In this context, the website will be built to interface with the leading browser tools and their content will be designed, built and presented to meet the 'open' standards recommended by the World Wide Web Consortium's Web Accessibility Initiative (W3C/WIA).

Conformance and Compliance: West Island Holidays acknowledges its responsibilities, with regard to the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 part 4 (as amended by the Special Education Needs Disability Act 2001) and the Disability Discrimination Act 2005, to make its website accessible to all. In seeking to establish an appropriate benchmark against which to measure the effectiveness of its compliance, West Island Holidays will observe the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, recommended as part of the W3C/WIA programme.

Adjusting Text Sizes

Some users might find text easier to read by either increasing or decreasing the size of the text.

To do this you can easily adjust your browser's settings. If you use Microsoft Internet Explorer, go to the View menu, select Text Size and then either Larger or Largest. If you use Netscape Navigator or Firefox, go to the View menu and choose Increase Font until the text is the size you require.

Downloading Files/Documents

Most of the downloadable material on this website is available in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF).

To view this type of file, you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is available as a free download from Adobe here.

Further PDF accessibility information, including details of accessing PDF documents using 'Assistive Technology' is available from access.adobe.com. This website is a resource designed to help people with visual disabilities work more effectively with Adobe® Acrobat® software and Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files. The site includes information about Acrobat 5.0, online conversion tools, Information and resources including FAQ's and links as well as downloads.

Click here to go to the Adobe Accessiblity website.

Click here to go to the Adobe online conversation tools for Adobe PDF documents.

Images

All images used on the home page and all other pages include descriptive ALT attributes. For users with screen reading software this provides a short description of the image in question.

Use of images is kept to a minimum.

Date format

All dates are shown in the international date format as prescribed by the World Wide Web Consortium, with the year, followed by the month and day.

Compatibility

While every effort has been made to ensure the West Island Holidays website is accessible on all platforms, we cannot guarantee complete cross-browser compatibility. We have, however tested the site on the following browsers with success:

• Firefox 1.05
• Lynx
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6
• Netscape 7.0.2
• Opera 7.5
• Safari 1.2.4

Accessibility Software:

• Click here to go to the Jaws website - a screen reader for Windows. A trial period demo is available.

• Click here to go to the Homepage Reader website - a screen reader for Windows. A trial period downloadable version is available.

• 'Lynx' website - a free text only web browser for blind users with refreshable Braille displays.

• 'Links' website - a free text only web browser for visual users with low bandwidth.

• 'Opera' website - a visual browser with many accessibility-related features, including text zooming. A free downloadable version is available.

Further Useful Links:

Microsoft Accessibility Information : http://www.microsoft.com/enable/

Adobe Accessibility Information : http://access.adobe.com

Further Useful Links:

Please note; external links on this page will open in the same browser window and are subject to the following:

Disclaimer Please note that by accessing external links you will be leave the West Island Holidys website. West Island Holidays is not responsible for the quality, accuracy or content of external websites.