Community Arts Workshop

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site accessibility information

The CAW website was originally created using tools that did not support flexibility in font sizes, background colours, etc.. A programme of work is under way to make the site conform to the principles of the W3C accessibility guidelines but, as site maintenance depends on a very limited amount of volunteer effort, this will take time.

Progress to date:

• Text sizes are now defined as percentages of the base body font, and can be changed by either using the text size command of the browser or by a user style sheet which adjusts the body text size.
  
• Text and background colours have been adjusted where necessary to provide sufficient contrast.
  
• All pages have been changed to avoid the use of frames, as these gave problems at large text sizes.
  
• Menu and page hierarchy have been simplified.
• All the main pages have ALT attributes describing images (excludes Hidden Histories project and slide show of early graffology projects).

Still to be done (effort permitting):

• Table headers to be introduced to describe the contents of tables (although most of these are only for page layout).
  
• Use of CSS for page layout in place of tables.