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Summary of the Website Accessibility Policy
The purpose of this policy is to ensure that Link’s external facing websites, intranet, and extranet will be accessible to, and usable by disabled people.
This policy shows how Link can make the reasonable adjustments required under the Disability Discrimination Act to make sure that the services we provide online are equally as accessible to disabled Internet users as to other members of the public and staff. It also shows what steps we can take to make the information and services we provide online accessible in other languages.
Scope
This policy is applicable to Link’s external facing website(s), the intranet, the extranet, business software systems and any online facilities or other business systems which may be developed or purchased.
Principles
The following principles govern the operation of this policy. These are cooperatively produced international standards for accessibility to which websites and online facilities are expected to aspire.
Our websites and online facilities will apsire to be:
- Perceivable - including descriptive text for images, audio captions, flexibility of layout and colour contrast
- Operable - making sites usable with keyboards and improving navigation
- Understandable - making content easier to read and input more logical
- Robust - ensuring that content and applications are compatible with assistive technology such as screen readers and magnifiers
Objectives
The objectives of the policy are to ensure that:
- Link’s online facilities reach at least level A conformance with WCAG2 recommendations
- Any development or additional online facilities conform at or above level A
- Provision for achieving or exceeding level A conformance is made in any partnership ventures which require online facilities