This is the official accessibility statement for the Ordnance Survey of Northern
Ireland. If you have any questions or comments please feel free to provide us with feedback
Standards
Compliance
All pages on this site are WCAG-AA approved
- complying
with all priority 1 checkpoints of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines v 1.0. (more about WAI compliance).
All pages validate against the W3C Validator tool as HTML 4.1 Transitional but may move to XHTML in
the future. All pages conform to eGMS 2.0 - the UK Government's metadata standard.
Navigation aids
Many links have title attributes which describe
the link in greater detail. In-page links are written to make sense out of context.
Design
The
site uses Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for layout and visual formatting (with rare exception for certain
components of some pages). All fonts are scalable - most browsers provide a means to specify default
base text-size. The site is of fixed width design and created for the 1024*768 resolution - this was
decided upon as the map console section is Java based and a requirement is that the Map Applet be as large as possible
to enhance user viewing and OSNI Shop use .
Accessibility
software
The most popular software that is
useful
for assisting access to Web sites is listed below. Some are free, some are commercial but have free
demos.
JAWS , a screen reader for Windows. A time-limited,
downloadable demo is available.
Home Page Reader
, a screen reader for Windows. A downloadable demo is available.
Lynx
, a free text-only web browser for blind users with refreshable Braille displays.
Links
, a free text-only web browser for visual users with low bandwidth.
Opera
, a visual browser with many accessibility-related features, including text zooming, user stylesheets,
image toggle. A downloadable version is available. Compatible with Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and
several other operating systems.
