Accessibility Statement
Here at Rainbows we’ve taken measures to make this site accessible to a wide audience. Below you’ll find a comprehensive list of the measures we’ve taken to improve accessibility. If you have any problems accessing our site or have any suggestion, please do contact us.
Overall features
- Our site is coded using valid, semantic code which will grant assistive technologies the ability to browse around our site without any semantic problems.
- Link phrases clearly specify where they lead when read out of context.
- Form controls are explicitly associated with their prompts.
- Content is clearly separated from presentation.
- Font size can be increased by pressing CTRL (Command for Mac users) plus +.
- Headlines have been used to properly mark up a page’s sections.
Access keys
To support keyboard users, Rainbows has assigned Access Keys for our main navigation links. Access keys will let you jump to a certain section of the site with a keyboard shortcut. In order to access these from a Windows browser, you should press ALT + the key. Macintosh users should use CTRL + acces key.
- Acces Key: h
- The Hospice
- Acces Key: i
- Get Involved
- Acces Key: d
- Donate
- Acces Key: e
- Events
- Acces Key: b
- Blog
- Acces Key: f
- FAQ
- Acces Key: s
- Store
- Acces Key: p
- Press
- Acces Key: l
- The Build
Screen Readers
You can navigate your way through our site suing a screenreader. Below you’ll find some shortcuts that will help you out while doing so:
- Press ‘H’ to cycle forwards through the headings.
- Shift + H will cycle backwards through the headings.
- ’1′ Will lead you towards the next leven 1 heading. On our site, every page has just one level 1 heading, which is our page’s title. However, pressing any number between 2 and 6 will take you through the next heading of each level.
- Shift + 1 (or any number between 1 and 6) will take you to the previous heading of that level.
- Insert + F6 will provide you with a list of all headings.
