Website accessibility statement

We have implemented a number of additional features into our website to improve it's accessibility to our users in line with the World Wide Web Consortium Web Accessibility Initiative's current recommendations..
*More information on these guidelines can be found here - http://www.w3.org/WAI/ (*External Link).

Our website has been checked against the online accessibility auditing tools available at
http://webxact.watchfire.com (*External Link), and complies with the (automated only) checking procedure for the World Wide Web Consortium's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines at Priority 1, 2 and 3.

AccessKeys

Are a feature supported by modern web browsers, enabling the user to navigate a website using the keyboard without need to use a pointing device such as a mouse. AccessKeys utilised by this website are:-

[1] - Osborne Footwear homepage
[2] - Women's footwear categories
[3] - Men's footwear categories
[4] - About our company
[5] - Location map
[6] - Online contact form
[7] - Website Accessibility statement (*this page)
[8] - Product newsletter signup
[9] - Sitemap

*Support for accesskeys is implemented differently across some web browsing applications & operating systems:-

Internet Explorer version 5 and later:-
Hold down the ALT key on your keyboard (Or CONTROL key on a MAC), then press the number / letter key indicated above simultaneously. This will highlight the relevant navigation item - Pressing ENTER / RETURN will take you to the indicated page.

Mozilla-based browsers, including Internet Explorer Version 4 (PC only) and Netscape 6.0 and later:-
Hold down the ALT key on your keyboard (Or CONTROL key on a MAC), then press the number / letter key indicated above simultaneously. This will immediately navigate to the indicated menu item.

Opera web browser:-
Hold down SHIFT then the ESC Key simultaneously, followed by the number / letter of the indicated menu item to navigate directly to that page.

Web-based Forms

Incorporate a logical tab order to enable navigation throughout the form's controls via the keyboard. All form fields are appropriately labelled with a description of their data contents. Where appropriate, sample form placeholder text is provided as a data type example to users.

General page structure

We have endeavoured to construct our website in a manner which makes it more easily accessible by devices such as screen readers, and have where possible incorporated navigation items in logical unordered lists to assist users in navigating our site. All code used in this website has been validated with the relevant tools provided by the World Wide Web Consortium:-

> Check the validity of the HTML code used in this page (*external link)
> Check the validity of the CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) code used in this page (*external link)