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Accessibility

In keeping with our ongoing commitment to provide services to all clients, Stewarts Hospital have constructed this website to conform to accessibility standards that will allow as many users as possible to access our online information. (WAI 3, CSS and XHTML 1.0 Transitional).

The goal of web accessibility is to ensure that all information or services delivered through our websites is available to and usable by the widest possible audience. This requirement means that all users should be able to:

• Perceive and understand the information provided
• Perceive, understand and operate the website navigation
• Perceive, understand and operate the controls and inputs

To achieve this, the design has taken into account the fact that the ability to see, hear, make inputs, read text or process information varies from user to user, across time and across situations of use.

This Web site contains a logical tab order for links throughout the site, so that those links can be activated easily.

Navigation Aids

All pages on this site will use structured semantic markup. <h1> tags will be used for main titles, with <h2> and <h3> tags used for subtitles. Visually impaired users will be able to skip the navigation links by selecting the 'Skip to main content' link in the site header.

Images

All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics include null ALT attributes.

Visual Design

This site uses cascading style sheets (CSS) for visual layout. This means you may customize your Internet browser settings to view the site according to your own preferences.

Relative font sizes will be used, compatible with the user-specified "text size" options in visual browsers. If your browser does not support style sheets the content of each page will still be readable.

Testing

We have endeavored to construct this site according to the National Disability Authority of Ireland's Guidelines for Web Accessibility, complying with WAI 3, CSS and XHTML 1.0 Transitional requirements. This site is also tested on multiple browsers on a variety of operating systems.