ECOTEC Accessibility Statement

This page lists the features used to facilitate the accessibility, compatibility and interoperability of the content of the ECOTEC website. We are committed to making the content of the site as accessible as possible and welcome your feedback.

Standards compliance

The site is designed to comply with Level AA (Priority II) of the World Wide Web Consortium Web Accessibilty Initiative Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 to promote accessibility, compatibility and interoperability.

The ECOTEC website follows the W3C recommendations for Extensible HyperText Markup Language 1.0 and Cascading Style Sheets 2. In both cases (XHTML and CSS), the markup of all pages strives to be valid.

It should be noted however, that there may be small errors introduced by non-technical users editing pages via CMS.

Access keys

Most Web browsers support jumping to specific links by typing keys defined on the Web site. In Windows, you can press Alt + an access key (if you are using Internet Explorer, press Return to follow the link); on Macintosh, you can press Control + an access key.

Access keys are defined because not all users are able to use a mouse, and several alternative browsing devices do not employ a 'point and click' interface.

The ECOTEC site defines the following access keys:

Home - Acccess Key is '1'

Careers - Access Key is '2'

About us - Access Key is '3'

Contact Us - Access Key is '4'

News - Access Key is '5'

Video - Access Key is '6'

Accessibility - Access Key is '7'

Site Map - Access Key is '8'

Published Papers - Access Key is '9'

ECORYS website - Access Key is 'e'

Visual design

The ECOTEC website uses Cascading Style Sheets for visual layout and design, avoiding the use of HTML tables and frames which can impede accessibility. A dedicated print style sheet is used to optimise each page for printing.

Font sizes are defined relatively, which means that they are determined by the user's preferences. Text can be resized using the browser's mechanism (View›Text Size / View›Text Zoom / View›Zoom).

A Web standards compliant visual browser will display the pages as they were intended. However, all the content of the site strives to be accessible using any browser or Internet device.

Document structure and markup

The content of each page is contained in structural XHTML.

Links

Where appropriate, links are provided with extra information in the title attribute of the <a> tag. In conventional browsers, this detail usually appears as a tooltip when the mouse hovers over a link. Screen readers and other devices also have methods of reading or displaying this information.

Wherever possible, link text is written to make sense when taken out of context. Browsing devices that can extract a list of links from a page will therefore render meaningful content.

No links use the javascript: pseudo-protocol. This means that browsers that do not support JavaScript and users who have disabled JavaScript are not excluded from any content. It also allows search engines, which do not execute JavaScript code when indexing the Web, to access all the content of the site.

Links will not open new windows.

Images

All functional images used on the site have alt attributes to provide alternative text that will appear in browsers that do not support images.