aql Accessibilty statement

aql is committed to providing facilities suitable for people with disabilities.
As part of our commitment we are currently upgrading this website to meet internationally recognised accessible website guidelines produced by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and working to AA level of those guidelines or Priority 1 and 2 checkpoints WCAG2.

This page provides information on ways that this website has been written to assist users identify helpful features of this site. The level of accessibility will be an ongoing endeavour to help make the site as open and available to all as is possible.

Primarily, we have provided an accessibility function for users to change accessibility features, globally, for the aql website.
This provides the ability to:

  • Increase and decrease the size of the text
  • To cut down eye strain, by making the page shades of grey (greyscale)
  • Render the page in high-contrast
  • Render the page in negative contrast
  • Lighten the page background
  • A 'highlight links' button, to underline links on a page
  • To change fonts to more readable font styles
  • A 'reset' button, to return the page to its previous state

Basic measures are:

Navigation
Navigation of this site is accomplished via:

  • Links across the top and bottom of each page
  • Navigation within each page
  • A site map
aql website accessibility control panel

Flexibility

This site has been designed using relative Cascading Style Sheets to allow the user to override the default appearance of the site in a number of ways, the most basic of which is to ensure that users can change the font size easily through their browser options.

Font size

At aql we considered the need of people to see larger fonts sometimes and therefore visitors can dynamically change the font sizes in their web browser in one of two ways:

  • Press down the CNTL button whilst using the mouse wheel to increase or decrease text size
  • From the browser menu bar select View - Text Size and select a size from the list

Alternatively, use a browsers Zoom feature to increase the size of content on your screen by simply pressing Ctrl with + to increase, and Ctrl with - to decrease text size.

PDF documents

While wherever possible we have provided an HTML version of content on this website, some content is provided in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. For information on how to access this content with specialist browsers please visit Adobe and accessibility.
http://www.adobe.com/accessibility.html

PDF documents

The official W3C guidelines are available at www.w3.org/WAI
http://www.w3.org/WAI/

Contact us

If you have a problem accessing any part of our site please contact the web team. https://aql.com/contact/

Thank you.