Accessibility policy

Standard Provision

Use of appropriate font face and sizes
Appropriate use of capitalisation, bold, italics and underlining for emphasis
Editorial consistency and use of appropriate writing style, punctuation, language, acronyms, etc
Appropriate line and paragraph length, spacing, leading, justification, positioning, etc

Appropriate colours, colour combinations, contrast and tints
No instructions or references only to colours in text or graphics (e.g. “the green button”)
Option for users to adjust text and background colours

Use of clear graphics of an appropriate size
Provision of alt text, figure descriptions or in-text descriptions (as appropriate) for graphics having pedagogic significance
Option for users to show/hide background graphics

Speech should be clear, succinct, well paced and free from unnecessary distractions, with appropriate and consistent use of language, tone, acronyms and jargon
Transcripts will be provided in an appropriate format for all spoken audio; this will include descriptions of sound effects having pedagogic significance
Video production will take into account the needs of disabled students in terms of image brightness, contrast, speed of action, flashing lights, references to colours, clarity of on-screen text, etc
Appropriate controls will be provided to control playback, override any synchronisation timings adjust volume and video window size

Consistent use of navigation and control methods
Size and spacing of controls allows operation by users without fine motor skills
All controls, menus, links, etc, allow keyboard control, logical tab order and ability to bypass groups of links
All controls, menus, links, etc, allow screen reader investigation by means of Alt Text labels, meaningful names, etc
On-screen messages remain until dismissed by the user; timed responses allow for disabled use

Correct and consistent use of styles, titles/headers, measures/units/values and mark-up, including specification of language dictionaries
Appropriate use of correctly constructed, marked-up and labelled tables or frames
Construction allows all relevant text (including titles, controls, formulae, etc) to be read/skipped by JAWS Ver 7 in a logical order
Avoid flashing text or objects
Appropriate and controllable use of spawned windows and pop-ups
The nature and degree of accessibility for interactive programs (e.g. simulation) will be discussed and agreed between Realware and clients, both in terms of inputs (data, controls, etc) and outputs (data, displays, etc). Where a sequence or cycle is initiated, a method of describing this or capturing adequate snapshots will be defined.

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