The Other Housing Event
Conference and Exhibition
Palace Hotel, Torquay
Accessibility
The ability of people to access this site is very important. It has been designed with a number of key issues in mind. Firstly, key text areas are viewable in larger sized print. Secondly, people using the site with a screen reader can move straight to the text and skip links. Thirdly, people who have difficulty using a mouse or other pointing device can tab through links or use access keys for the main pages on this site. Lastly, this site has been designed to meet international standards to make it accessible to a variety of equipment. Further information on all these points is given below.
Larger print
Did you know that most screen-based browsers will allow users to select their own print size? This means that many web-sites can be viewed using a larger print size, and hence make them clearer, than was originally designed. You will see at the top of each page a series of letter ""a", rising in size. Select a letter to enlarge the size of the font used. You must have javascript enabled for this to happen.
Move straight to the text
At the top left of the screen, when viewed, and therefore at the begining of the page, is a "Skip nav" link. Selecting this allows the user to go straight to the main body of the text. This is a boon to people using a screen reader who do not want to hear the navigation bar read to them each time they select a new page!
Selecting links
You can select links by using the "Tab" key on your keyboard. Just keep pressing it until you arrive at the link you want. Alternatively you can select the main links on every page by selecting an accesskey. This is a letter on the keyboard unique to the page you want to select. Suppose you want to go to the "Home" page. Press "Alt" and "h" together, and possibly "Enter" (dependant upon browser) and you will go to that page.
| Exhibition | key | Delegates | key | General | key |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application | a | Application | d | Contact | c |
| Bookings | b | Programme | p | Home | h |
| Terms | t |
Standards
This site is designed to internationally developed standards supervised by the World Wide Web Consortium. You can also validate this page by visiting the W3C site to check it is what we say!