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Accessibility

All pages on this site should conform with the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) level-AAA (see http://www.w3.org/WAI), and should meet W3C standards for content markup (see the XHTML validator), and presentation markup (see the CSS validator). What this means is that the Heritage Open Days website will work with the widest possible range of devices and has been designed to be accessible to all users, irrespective of browser type, speed of connection or physical ability.

Accesskeys

Accesskeys are keyboard shortcuts which allow users to navigate around the website without having to use a mouse or similar device.

This website uses the UK Government recommended accesskeys:
1 Homepage
4 Search
5 FAQs
7 Contact us
8 Legal statements
0 Accesskey details

In addition, we also use the following accesskeys:
E Event Directory (browse by County)
R Event Directory (browse by Region)
T Top of page
2 Jump to navigation menus

If you have Internet Explorer select Alt + Accesskey + Enter. With other browsers, such as Netscape, omit Enter. If you use a Macintosh use Ctrl + Accesskey.

Tab keys

Pressing the tab key repeatedly selects the links and form controls of a page in the order in which they appear. We have changed the tab key order on some pages so that the most appropriate links are selected first. These are the search page, and the browse by county, browse by region, and regional contents pages in the event directory.

Text Size

You can set the size of the text used on this site to small, medium, large or extra-large by clicking on the ‘A’ links presented in top right hand area of all pages. These are relative text sizes and work in conjunction with your browser’s text size controls, which are normally found under the ‘view’ menu. Your browser will remember the text size setting for this site if you return at a later date.
(This feature will not work unless JavaScript is enabled, and your security settings allow the use of Cookies. It is not available to very old desktop browsers or other devices which do not work with the Document Object Model.)