Accessibility Statement, Sir John Lawes School website

Navigation

A static top line navigation menu is provided consistently across the entire site. The following options are available:

• Links to the home page, about the school, key information, courses, life in the sixth form, how to allpy and contact us are consistent throughout the site navigation.
• A "breadcrumb trail" has been provided where relevant through the site to show the zone and page the user is viewing within the site.
• A left hand (zone specific) menu is provided on relevant pages.

Site accessibility features

• Browser support: this site has been optimised for users of Internet Explorer versions higher than 6. The site supports basic rendering for older browsers All versions of Windows Internet Explorer are supported as well versions 6 & 7 of Netscape Navigator/Mozilla IE5 for Mac and Netscape 4 will default to a non- styled rendering.
• Text resizing and screen reader: text resizing is supported.

Sir John Lawes School and accessibility

Sir John Lawes School is committed to making its web content widely accessible to all users and is constantly striving to improve standards and better enable access to its website. We are also committed to establishing a minimum accessibility standard for web pages and to achieving the maximum standard wherever possible. This web access statement relates specifically to the public Sir John Lawes School website.

This site complies with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Conformance, Priority 1. Layout is accomplished mainly with CSS, but the site will also display well if CSS is not supported. Form controls are properly grouped and labelled. Links to pop-up windows are used on this site, and are noted as such using the title element for the link. Navigation items are grouped, with "invisible" links to skip the initial navigation elements if desired. Important navigation links have shortcut keys to enable quick access, shown in the following table: