Accessibility

The Oxford e-Research Centre website uses Plone, an Open Source content management system. Our pages have been designed with an understanding that the information on them should be easily accessible to any device that can connect to it. The site has therefore been put together with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG v1.0) in mind at all times. We hope that this makes our site clear and simple for everybody to use.

If you find anything on this site — accessibility or validation related — that is not according to the standard, please contact info@oerc.ox.ac.uk, and not the Plone Team.

Access keys

Access keys are a navigation device enabling you to get around this web site using your keyboard.

In-depth information about access keys can be found on the W3C website.

Available access keys

This site uses a setup that closely matches most international recommendations on access keys. These are:

1 — Home Page

2 — Skip to content

3 — Site Map

4 — Search field focus

5 — Advanced Search

9 — Contact information

0 — Access Key details

Using access keys in different web browsers

Internet Explorer 5+ (Windows)
Hold down the Alt key, press the number or letter of the access key, release both keys then press ENTER.

Internet Explorer 4 (Windows)
Hold down the Alt key and press the number or letter of the access key.

Internet Explorer 5+ (Mac)
Hold down the Ctrl key and press the number or letter of the access key.

Internet Explorer 4.5 (Mac)
Access keys are not supported, please use a different browser.

Firefox, Mozilla and Netscape 7+ (Windows)
Hold down the Alt key and press the number or letter of the access key.

Firefox, Mozilla and Netscape 7+ (Mac OS X)
Hold down the Ctrl key and press the number or letter of the access key.

Safari and Omniweb (Mac OS X)
Hold down the Ctrl key and press the number or letter of the access key.

Konqueror (Linux)
Press and release the Ctrl key, then press the number or letter of the access key.

Netscape 6 and earlier (All platforms)
Access keys are not supported, please use a different browser.

Validation

We have used XHTML 1.0 and CSS that conforms to specification, as laid out by the W3C because we believe that usability and accessibility must have a solid foundation. If anything on this web site does not validate correctly, please contact info@oerc.ox.ac.uk, and not the Plone Team.

We have also endeavoured to achieve AA accessibility as measured against version 1.0 of the WCAG. We are aware however, that a number of the checkpoints of the WCAG are subjective and that there may be instances where interpretation may vary.