Help: Accessibility

Using the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative guidelines (WAI), we are pleased to have made our award-winning Electronic Journals service even more accessible for users with sensory disabilities.

Several changes have been incorporated into the interface, making our user-friendly Web site even easier to navigate.

Significant areas of improvement include:

  • Providing a text equivalent for every non-text element
  • Avoiding causing content to blink
  • Using text for link text rather than a graphic and/or providing the same link in text format somewhere on the same page
  • Ensuring that foreground and background colour combinations provide sufficient contrast
  • Using relative rather than absolute units when defining font sizes
  • Using header elements to convey document structure

We hope that these important amendments to our Electronic Journals service will provide a more accessible interface for all our users.