Accessibility

Children in a Changing Climate is committed to making its web site as accessible as possible. Children in a Changing Climate aims to provide equal access to services, information and products offered through its online channel to all users, across multiple platforms, regardless of ability.

Menu systems
The menu systems of this site are designed to be highly accessible, and utilise clean structural code which provides context-sensitive navigation around the website. Each navigation area has a specific purpose and reflects a level of the website’s hierarchy.

Access keys
The first navigation area on this site contains access keys which you can use to navigate the site. To find these access keys simply hover over the respective links in the first menu system, or check the link titles using assistive technology.

Site map
This site has a fully automated hierarchical sitemap which you can find linked to prominently on all pages. The site map is designed to communicate the hierarchical structure of the website and provide quick access to all pages.

Search
The search facility of this website provides an alternative route to finding information across the site. This searches all live content. The search results pages are designed to work well on normal browsers and assistive technology – with additional information about each page (type of page, date last updated, and so forth) being available in the code of the results page.

Font scaling
The initial font sizes of this site are designed to be clear and readable for a wide audience whilst making neat use of available screen space. The fonts are scalable and can use your browser controls to increase or decrease the font size.

Auto Title
All pages are set to have an automatic ‘heading 1’ and page title tag. This allows you to identify quickly the purpose of a given page using a web browser or assistive technology.

Prominent contact information
We have provided prominent contact information on this site in order to make ourselves available to answer any questions. We are available to help you find the information you may be looking for. A contact link is available at the top of every page.

Steps taken to ensure our site is accessible Design
In commissioning the design of this website, we have made accessibility a clear requirement from the outset. This has been at the forefront of our minds in reviewing all design mock-ups.

Technology
This website is built using an accessible Content Management System (Sitekit CMS) which we chose after a careful selection process. The Content Management System provides the technical framework which underpins all of the information published on this site, and as such, built-in accessibility is important. We have used the Content Management System in a fashion which does not undermine it’s intrinsically accessible technical foundation; we have used pre-tested and compliant modules within the system wherever possible; and we have taken time to research the accessibility features of the system and incorporated these carefully within our site in a fashion which we believe makes good use of the technology.

Build
The site has been built using industry-recognised best-practice techniques, and state-of-the-art build methods. We selected a team who we believe had the necessary experience and expertise to help us reach high levels of compliance. All work has been thoroughly quality tested using a checklist which incorporates modern best-practice and current international technical guidelines on accessibility (under the Web Accessibility Initiative, of the World Wide Web Consortium). The templates for this website have undergone machine accessibility testing as well as real-life human accessibility testing, and a range of changes were incorporated into the build of the website to assist with compliance.

Content
We aim to keep our content relevant to the audience and written in plain English, and we invite feedback from users.

We encourage any users, experiencing problems with our site to contact us at the address below. We will work to solve any issues as a priority and where possible.