Accessibility

BEVA is committed to providing accessible services for everyone regardless of their ability. We recognise that our website is one of our main communication tools in connecting members and providing information about the Organisation, we are committed to ensuring that everyone can use it.

Our Commitment

New media technologies are always developing and changing at a fast pace, however we are committed to following the broad principles when developing our website:

Following standards: BEVA’s websites should comply with accessibility standards in commissioning, editorial, design and coding. These standards include the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative.

Ensure that it is designed for use with assistive technologies: our online media work will work well with technologies such as software page readers

Guidelines

The accessibility guidelines we are committed to following include:

• Using an easy to read web font type.
• Ability for users to control text sizes via browser.
• Ensuring suitable foreground and background colour contrast on text.
• Using clear and simple grammar.
• Providing meaningful alternative text equivalents for pictures.
• Providing a straight forward and consistent site navigation.
• Ensuring the target of each link is clearly defined.
• Providing a sitemap.
• Using appropriate structural mark-up to maximise browser support.
• Ensuring all content and functionality is available to users without content style sheet (CSS), image and script support.

Need Further Assistance?

Although we are testing this site on an ongoing basis, it’s your experience of using this website which ultimately counts, we are committed to try our best to solve problems as we are made aware of them. Do not hesitate to let us know if there are things you find difficult or if you have constructive feedback please don’t hesitate to contact us.