The Blackpool & District Badminton Association website is powered by EasierThan Website Design who are continually striving to make the websites they produce more inclusive and accessible to all users regardless of technological or physical disability.
This page details what has been done to make this website interface more usable and accessible:
Access Keys
To aid in the navigation of this website, we have enabled several access keys (short cut keys) to some of the most useful pages, such as the Home page. We have also included links for some of the site's added functionality such as the Skip Navigation link.
The majority of web browsers support access key functionality. To use access keys you need to do the following:
- For Windows users, press "ALT" plus the listed access key
- For Macintosh users, press "Control" plus the listed access key
- Pressing "Enter" will then take you to the page
The following is a list of the Access Keys currently available and their functions:
- S = Skip Navigation
- 1 = Home
- 0 = Accessibility
Assistive Technology
People with disabilities use assistive technology to aid with the use of websites, thus allowing them to complete tasks that may not be achievable otherwise.
During the development of their website templates, EasierThan Website Design make every effort to ensure all pages work with the following technologies:
- Screen Readers
- Text Only Browsers
- Screen Magnifiers
If you experience problems using these tools on the Blackpool & District Badminton Association website or have any recommendations to improve accessibility using assistive technology please contact EasierThan Website Design via their website and we'll do our best to make improvements.
Visual Design
Every effort is made to ensure that the visual design of our websites can be successfully experienced by all visitors.
Acronyms
As much as possible, where acronyms are used on a site, an acronym tag is added which states what they stand for. Where this occurs, the acronym is underlined with a dotted line and when the mouse cursor is put over it a tool-tip appears.
- For example, BBC
The acronym tag also helps Assistive Technology in identifying an acronym.
Browsers
The design has been tested using a variety of different browsers, both modern and old, to ensure that it can be viewed by the largest number of visitors possible.
Browsers tested include:
- Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Netscape Navigator
- Mozilla Firefox
- Opera
- Konquerer
- Lynx
- NCSA Mosaic
- Microsoft Pocket Internet Explorer
The website template is also designed to work on alternative devices such as mobile phones and even a Nintendo Wii.
Colours
The design makes use of colours that provide maximum contrast between foreground and background items. All page content is presented with a white background and black primary text.
Forms
All online forms within the site have labels attached to the fields to ensure that the purpose of a field is read out to any visitors using Assistive Technology.
Frames
The design does not make any use of frames as they can cause navigation problems for Assistive Technology.
Images
All graphics and images throughout the site are assigned an alt-text attribute, which helps to describe the contents or function of the item.
Screen Resolution
Although, the site is best displayed using a screen resolution of above 1024 x 768, it has been designed and tested to ensure that it will display correctly at any resolution on any browser from 800 x 600 upwards.
The text on a page should always be viewable without any sideways scrolling. Horizontal scroll bars will only appear where an image displayed within the content is wider than the chosen resolution.
Tables
Within the site, all tables carry meaningful table summaries and table headers to ensure that Assistive Technology can successfully interpret the contents. Tables are never used for decorative layout as this can also cause confusion.
W3C Compliance
The Blackpool & District Badminton Association website (powered by EasierThan Website Design) has been designed in accordance with the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) internationally recognised Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) guidelines. The WAI is a set of guidelines for producing usable and accessible websites.
There are three levels of web accessibility under the initiative - "A", "AA" and "AAA". Every effort has been made to ensure that all pages on the Blackpool & District Badminton Association website conform to at least a priority 2 "AA" rating:
Detailed information about the WAI can be found at:
