Accessibility Statement

We are committed to making this website accessible to all people, regardless of ability. To this end we have designed this website to follow guidelines set out by the W3C (the World Wide Web Consortium). The W3C WAI (Web Accessibility Initiative) produces accessibility guidelines that are an internationally recognised benchmark of accessibility.

In designing this site, we have applied all appropriate WAI Priority 1 and Priority 2 criteria and a number of the WAI Priority 3 criteria.

The benefits of compliance with the WAI WCAG include:

• Pages are fast to download, regardless of whether you are using broadband or a modem
• All pages validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional ensuring that they work with a wide variety of browsers.
• All font sizes are relative, allowing users to change font size easily using their browser. Use your browsers sizing options to access this feature.
• If your browser or browsing device does not support cascading stylesheets (CSS), the content of each page is still readable.
• There are invisible 'skip links' for users with any visual impairment using screen readers.
• All pages will function perfectly well without JavaScript
• All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT (i.e. alternative text) attributes. Purely decorative graphics include null ALT attributes.
• Each page will print out in a highly readable format on a standard A4 sized page.

We will continue to closely monitor developments and changes in WAI WCAG guidelines and general website best practice.

If you feel that this web site could be easier to use or that any part of it is not accessible, please email m3@nra.ie.