Web Site Accessibility Statement
Web site accessibility for disabled users is now enshrined in UK law under the SENDA (Special Educational Needs and Disability Act, Disability Discrimination Act Part 4) legislation of 2001. Under the terms of this act it is illegal for an education institution to treat people with disabilities less favourably or to fail to make reasonable adjustments to meet their needs.
Merton School Sports Partnership strives to make all of its electronic resources as accessible as possible to all of our users, regardless of their particular circumstances. If you find any problems in accessing information from our site, please contact the Webmaster.
Site Validation
All site pages are run through a XHTML validator, as are style sheets. A link checker is also used. We proudly display the W3C XHTML compliant link on all our pages so you can check for yourself.
Pages are also typically checked for accessibility and run through suitable checks (e.g. http://bobby.watchfire.com/). This is done to triple-A standard ensuring all pages meet priority 1,2 and 3 checkpoints.
Site Presentation
This site does not use either frame nor tables to organise the layout of the pages.
All layout code is separated through CSS enabling screen readers to easily access the important content of the site.
Each page has a navigation bar in plain HTML that can be used with text or voice web browsers.
We use relative font sizes to allow the end user control over site text size. The choice of font for the main text is typically left to the individual via their browser defaults.
Cross-Browser, Cross PlatformWe have tried to make this website as compatiable with as many different platforms and web browsers as possible. We guarantee full functionality with Internet Explorer versions 6 and 7, Firefox versions 1.5 and 2.0 and Safari. This site has been tested on Windows, Macintosh and Linux platforms. (Although any CSS2 compliant browser on any platform should be just fine). After all just because you use a Sun SPARC Workstation with Solaris running the Konqueror web browser why shouldn't you be able to use our site?
We like Flash. It looks great and can add really nice functionality. However we appreciate that not everyone has it installed and it can be a real pain for people using screen readers. All flash content on this site has been used in an accessible way with alternative content available. If navigation options are provided within the Flash you will also be able to find your way to those pages easily via other means. If it's a purely visual piece of Flash then we will provide "failover" imagery (and then text if appropriate).
