Accessibility

We have worked hard to make the Wood & Weir website accessible to everyone. It is built to the Worldwide Web Consortium’s (W3C) guidelines for accessibility.

access keys

Our navigation is accessible by screen readers and voice browsers. In addition, skip links allow the user to by-pass the navigation to the main content and also to directly navigate the main site areas.

All pages on this site define the following access keys:

Access key 1 - Home
Access key 2 - Location & Contacts
Access key 3 - Services
Access key 4 - Portfolio
Access key 5 - News
Access key 6 - Accessibility

How to use access keys

Hold down 'alt' key and number/letter of the access key, then press 'enter'.

Partially sighted users - changing the font size

We have provided the facility to change the font size of the text used on our web pages. If you are using Internet Explorer, select 'View' from the menu bar, then 'Text Size' and select from 'Smallest' to 'Largest'. In Netscape, select 'View' from the menu bar, then 'Text Size' and select from 'Smaller', 'Larger' or 'Other'.

Colour-blind users

We have checked the site font and background colour combinations for the different colour blindness conditions and ensured that items are not referenced by colour alone.

Should you wish to change the colour of text and background by introducing your own style sheet, please follow the instructions in changing the style sheet.

Keyboard-only users

This site can be navigated using the keyboard only, the keys to use are as follows:

To move forward between links, use the tab key
To move back between links, use the Shift + tab keys
To initiate an action button, use the Enter key when the action button is selected.
'tab' moves you through the different page elements.
'backspace' moves you back through the pages you have already visited.
'alt' and 'left arrow/cursor' moves you back through the pages you have already visited.
'alt' and 'right arrow/cursor' moves you forward through pages you have already visited.
'ctrl' and 'home' takes you to the beginning of the page.
'ctrl' and 'end' takes you to the end of the page.
'spacebar' moves the page down.
'page up' and 'page down' moves the page up and down.

Changing the style sheet

Users may import their own style sheet into the website. In Internet Explorer, select Tools, then Internet Options and then Accessibility. Next click on any or all of three checkboxes to ignore colours, font styles or font sizes. In the same window, you can change the style sheet by clicking the checkbox that says 'Format document using my style sheet', then simply browse to your preferred style sheet and click ok. In Netscape, select Edit, then Preferences and then Appearance. You will then be given a choice of colours and fonts.