Prostate Cancer UK site accessibility
Accessibility guidelines
All pages of this website conform to level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. These guidelines are the internationally recognized benchmark for building accessible websites.
Following these guidelines also makes web content more user friendly for all people.
Web standards and technologies
This website has been built to conform to W3C standards for HTML and CSS. These technologies are relied upon throughout the site. The site should display correctly in all popular web browsers, and degrades gracefully in older browsers.
In addition, this website uses JavaScript and PDFs. These technologies are not relied upon and the website works perfectly well without them. Where they have been used, they meet the same high levels of accessibility as the rest of the site.
Recite Me Assistive Technology
We want as many people as possible to be able to use our website. To provide additional support to aid a more inclusive user experience we provide the Recite Me assistive technology tool. This Toolbar enables all website visitors to customise their experience through a range of options to suit their online accessibility and language needs.
The Recite Me toolbar provides text-to-speech functionality, fully customisable styling features, reading aids and a translation tool with over 100 languages, including 65 text-to-speech voices and many other features.
This means that when the toolbar is activated by the user they can:
- Listen to the website using text-to-speech functionality
- Customise background, text and accessibility tool colours
- Modify the font, line height or spacing of text
- Zoom in up to 200% without text spilling off the screen
- The text will reflow in a single column when you change the size of your browser window
- Navigate the website using just a keyboard
- Translate the website into a different language
- Download mp3 files of web page text
- View website pages in text-only mode
Contact information
We are continually working to maintain the accessibility of this website. If you experience any problem accessing the site then please contact us.
Please note: for advice on what information to include when you contact us, we recommending you read 'Contacting Organizations about Inaccessible Websites' http://www.w3.org/WAI/users/inaccessible
Conformance date
This accessibility statement was issued on 09 December 2010 and is reviewed annually.
