We will be continually working to improve the accessibility and usability of the website, but if you have any suggestions or are experiencing any difficulties downloading files or accessing a particular page please contact us. Whilst The Migraine Trust strives to adhere to the accepted guidelines and standards for accessibility and usability, it is not always possible to do so in all areas of the website. Mozilla Firefox Google Chrome Safari Internet Explorer Opera Our commitment
The following are available to download for free, which may help: It may help you to download a newer version of a browser. However, if you are using an older browser, our pages may not be presented in the best possible way. We have tried to make our website compatible with all browsers. The accessibility test assesses 41 features across eight categories.
The tool crawls your site, making sure that each subpage can be correctly displayed by screen readers, allowing even blind and visually-impaired users to make full use of it. Unfortunately, The Migraine Trust does not have the resources at present to provide transcripts and audio descriptions for video content. With s Accessibility Checker, you can find out how accessible your website is. Where appropriate, ALT tags provide screen reader users and those with images turned off with a description of the content of the picture. Images and designĪll images have ALT tags. Should you need to, most browsers enable you to change the text size – you can see information for Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox and Opera here and instructions for Google Chrome are here. We use Plain English as much as possible. Text in images is avoided where possible, but is always available in the ALT tags. TextĪll text is in the document, legible and readable with good size and contrast, and appears even if JavaScript is disabled. This creates a fast loading website that is accessible to screen readers and is usable in most browsers, including older browsers and browsers available on non-Windows systems. The Migraine Trust site is built using HTML5 and CSS 3. It can be added to form fields just like aria-requiredtrue and its supposed to alert screen reader. This website has been built to comply with the World Wide Web Consortium’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) (AA Level) and has the following features: General Another, newer option is the HTML 5 required property. Our website has features that allow its users to find and consume the information they need in the way they find easiest. $('.accordion').The Migraine Trust strives to make its services accessible and usable for all users. This function captures any keyboard presses while an accordion is in focus (tabbed The appropriate actions based on the specific key pressed. Please note that the programmer will need to develop additional Javascript to execute We recommend adding functionality for the following keyboard presses:
The following code is a general example of how this canīe accomplished. Users should now be able to tab onto the accordions, but the accordions must also Javascript is necessary to make sure the accordions can be opened and closed with Once the HTML is structured, the accordions must be made fully accessible. Tabindex="0" attribute is necessary in order to add the accordion to the tabbing index for keyboard The role="button" attribute is necessary to allow screen readers to interact with the accordion.
The following code example for a single accordion uses s to trigger accordion content. Readers and are automatically added to the tabbing index for keyboard users. Buttons are natively able to interact with screen Using the and HTML5 tags until they are able to interact with screen readers. Options, but there are other possible methods of implementation. There are multiple ways to implement accordions. To make accordions look good and function correctly. It is up to the programmer to ensure that the necessary CSS or Javascript is written Regardless of the implementation, some additional Javascript is required to make accordions In making the user feel less overwhelmed, as they can choose what sections to readĪccordions may be implemented using the and HTML5 tags, by combining HTML and CSS, or by combining HTML, CSS, and Javascript. Sections of content into areas that expand and collapse. Accordions-also known as sliders-are common design elements used to organize large