St Andrew's School

Alternative Style

For visitors with Partial Sightedness, Colour Blindness or Dyslexia we have created two alternative views for this website. These alternative views remove most of the graphics, and use appropriate colours to create suitable contrast on the page. They also allow visitors to comfortably increase the text size to a size more suited to them. These views can be accessed from the links at the top or bottom of the page.

Access Keys

Access keys are keyboard shortcuts for the main links used in this site. How the keys work varies between platforms and browsers. Most browsers support jumping to specific links by typing keys defined on the web site.

As a rule, on Windows, you can press ALT + an access key; on Macintosh, you can press Control + an access key, pressing the enter key will follow a link.

You can cycle through all the links by using the TAB key. To open a link which you have tabbed to, please press ENTER.

(Please note Access Keys may not work on all browsers)

Images and Alt Tags

We have avoided using excessive graphics within the web site where possible to ensure quick download times and access to information which cannot be read when in image format.

Where images have been used we have added 'Alt' tags - text alternatives so that you can still see what the image is meant to convey even if it doesn't load or if you have chosen to browse with the images switched off or you are using something like a screen reader to read the web page rather than view.

Re-sizable Text

We have been careful to make sure that we haven't fixed the size of the textual information on the web site so that visitors who wish to can alter the font size on the screen to make it easier to read. There are a number of ways to change the text size in your browser, the easiest way is to follow the following steps: (In Internet Explorer)

1.  Select the "View" menu.
2.  Select the "Text Size" option from the menu.
3.  Click on the text size you want to view.

It is also possible to increase the size of the text by holding down the ctrl key on the bottom left hand row of the key board whilst using the scroll wheel on the mouse to increase (or decrease) the size of the text.

Browser Compatibility

This site has been tested with the following browsers for compatibility.

• Internet Explorer 5.0 & 6.0
• Firefox 1.0.7
• Safari 2.0.3

Later versions of these browsers should continue to be compatible.

Coding Standards

We have ensured our site conforms to W3C standards for xhtml and css. Adhering to these standards should make our site accessible across browsers which adhere to the same standards, and should make our pages more accessible to those using screen readers and similar devices.

Consistent Navigation

Throughout the site we have tried to keep the navigation consistent. Certain pages are available from every single page on the website. All image links have text alternatives.

If you have any comments about the navigation on the site please contact our Webmaster.