The People’s Collection Wales accessibility policy
The aims of the People’s Collection project include the remit that its media is accessible to people who have visual, hearing, motor or cognitive impairments.
As technologies that assist disabled users become more available and sophisticated, the People’s Collection team will ensure that its media work well with these assistive technologies to ensure an accessible experience for disabled users
The People’s Collection team will also work with those in the wider accessibility community (such as the Shaw Trust) to support the future development of these technologies and the standards that allow all websites to be created to work best with them.
Our intention is to increase the amount of our online video which is captioned, signed, or has audio description once the number of videos on the website reaches a point where video is regarded as an integral part of the People’s Collection experience. We will be proving methods whereby users can add captions to their videos at the point of upload. At the current time video is not as accessible as we would like.
In those instances where the specific accessibility needs of some disabled user groups require us to create new or repurposed editorial content, we will do this, wherever appropriate, so that we become more inclusive to a wider audience online.
Maps
The mapping solutions on The People’s Collection Wales are not fully accessible at this time. We are constantly reviewing the mapping technologies available with a view to developing a suitable map-based solution as and when this becomes possible. Unfortunately, current the 3rd party technologies used do not permit this to happen and therefore the addition features of map-based item display and the Trails area of the site are excluded from our accessibility policy.
Access Keys
The following Access keys apply to the Peoples’ Collection Wales website. These follow the UK government recommended set of access keys
1 - Home page
2 - What's new (Collections)
4 - Search (Advanced Search)
5 - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
6 - Help - (Support?)
8 - Terms and conditions
9 - Feedback form
Resources
The following web sites provide further accessibility information for your web browser:
Navigation
A hidden menu has been placed at the beginning of each page to allow screen reader users to link to the main areas of the page.
Headings and navigation menus
HTML heading tags are used to convey document structure. H1 tags are used for main titles, H2 tags for subtitles etc.
Navigation menus are marked up as HTML lists. This ensures that the number of links in the list is read out at the start and it can be skipped easily.
Images
All images used in this site include descriptive alt tag attributes where appropriate.
Colours
We have taken care to ensure that the site's font and background colour combinations contrast significantly and are effective in ensuring information is still clear when viewed in different colour combinations.
If you wish to override the site's colours, you can do by changing your browser settings to your own preference.
Font size
The font used on our site are can be changed in size. You can do this by changing your browser settings to your own preference.
Stylesheets
This site uses cascading style sheets for the visual presentation of content. If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the use of structured semantic mark up ensures that the content of each page is still readable and clearly structured.
Tables
All data tables have header cells, to allow screen readers to render them intelligently. Table summaries are used.
We have, wherever possible avoided using tables for layout purposes.
Forms and fields
All forms fields follow a logical tab sequence to ensure easy navigation.
Most form fields also have 'label' and 'id' attributes to explicitly associate the form field with its label to allow for easy entry of data.
Links
All links have been written to make sense when taken out of context.