Accessibility

The Yellow School Bus Commission recognises the need for this website to be as widely accessible as possible. Striving to meet our obligations under the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) 1995 with respect to the provision of services online we have implemented a number of features to make this website easy to use, especially for users with disabilities.

The Yellow School Bus Commission will make every effort for all pages in this section to conform to at least Level 1 standard of the W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. We will continue to make improvements and make sure this website conforms to these guidelines. The Yellow School Bus Commission is not responsible for the accessibility of any third-party websites which this site may link to.

Accessibility features on this website

The following features improve navigation for text only browsers, screen reader users, and users of keyboard navigation.

Style sheets

This site uses Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for visual layout. If your browser supports it, style sheets can be disabled or over-ridden to customise the appearance of the website, to your preference.

Access keys

Access keys are keyboard shortcuts that replace the need to use a mouse for navigation. In Internet Explorer versions 5 and above, hold down ALT + the access key then release both keys and press ENTER. In most other Windows browsers you can press ALT + an access key; and Macintosh users can press Control + an access key.

The following access keys are enabled:

S: Skip navigation

0: Accessibility

1: Home page (within this site)

2: Background page

3: Members page

4: Features page

5: YSB Initiatives

6: Yellow Sound Bite Tour

7: Media Centre

8: YSB Research

9: Questionnaire

These Access keys are based on UK Government guidelines. We have attempted to avoid conflicts with commonly used operating system shortcuts.

Tabbing

We appreciate that not all people using this site can use a mouse; we will ensure that this website can be browsed in a logical manner using the Tab button. Pressing the ' Tab ' key while on a web page will select the next link on the page. You can press ' Tab ' repeatedly to get to the chosen link. The selected link is indicated by the dotted border around the link. Once your chosen link is selected, you can trigger it by pressing the ' Enter ' key on your keyboard. You can move backwards through links by pressing ' Shift ' + ' Tab ' together.

Font sizes

You can change the font size of each page to your preference through the browser.

• In Internet Explorer, select View, then Text Size, and then your preferred size.
• In Netscape select View, then Text Zoom, and then your preferred percentage size.
• In Firefox press CTRL + to increase font size and CTRL - to decrease. CTRL 0 will reset sizes to default.

Alternatively, you can use the text sizer at the top of each page.

Forms

Labels are used to assist access to form fields. All forms follow a logical tab sequence.

Tables

A table standard hasn't been agreed upon at the time of writing. However, we will keep this situation under review.

Colours

The site has been designed to be easy to read through its colour combinations. If you have any difficulty in reading parts of the site, try increasing the font size, or try altering the visual appearance of your browser.

Links

We have worked hard to ensure that our links are meaningful, and some links are explained in greater detail by using a title attribute, visible when hovering over the link.

Scripting

JavaScript is used on the site to improve usability. All pages and processes are still accessible and usable if JavaScript is disabled or unavailable.

Browsers

This website is built to XHTML 1.0 and CSS 1.0/2.0 standards. To ensure code quality and that standards are maintained we are committed to checking this on a regular basis.

This website will function and look as intended in browsers that support these standards. The most common of these are:

• Safari and Firefox on Mac OS X
• Firefox and Internet Explorer (6+) on Windows

If you do not have one of these browsers installed or are unable to upgrade, you may find the website easier to use by disabling CSS altogether - please see your browser's help documentation for further information.