Accessibility

This site has been fully tested and passes the W3C validation tests for XHTML 1.0 Strict. The site has been developed considering the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and consideration has been taken for the viewing of the site in all of the most commonly used Internet browsers (full list of tested browsers can be seen below). The site is best viewed in the Firefox 3 Internet browser at a screen resolution of 1024 x 768.

Browser Compatibility

This site has been tested and is considered to work correctly in the following browsers:

- Internet Explorer 6
- Internet Explorer 7
- Firefox 2.9
- Firefox 3
- Safari 3.1.2
- Google Chrome (BETA)

Difficulty Viewing Whole Pages or Certain Content

Should you have difficulty accessing information on any of our pages, please contact us giving the URL details of the pages concerned, we will endeavour to find a solution to your problem.

Standards Compliance

As mentioned above this site has been fully tested in XHTML 1.0 Strict mode.

Cascading Stylesheets (CSS)

This site uses CSS to separate content from layout and presentation. This ensures that by removing the CSS style sheet the site remains readable and functioning without the need for graphics, and remains presented in a logical order. The CSS on this site has also been tested using W3C's validation service and complies with CSS coding guidelines.

Access Keys

Often by typing key presses an accessible site can assist navigating to various sections. The following are the Access Keys for this site.

- H: Home
- W: How it works
- E: Entrepreneurs
- F: Funded
- A: My Account
- L: Login
- R: Register
- U: About us
- C: Contact us
- B: View basket
- Y: Help
- T: Terms and Conditions
- P: Privacy policy
- A: Accessibility

Use them with ALT+AccessKey followed by ENTER on PC and CTRL+AccessKey on Mac.

Links

Links embedded in the main content have been styled to show specific emphasis to ensure they are distinct from the rest of the content. They have been designed to provide a distinct enough difference so that colour-blind site users can access the site comfortably.

Links have also been designed to ensure they appear in content and are themselves descriptive of their hyperlink location.

Images

Images have been used to add additional impact to certain sections of the site. Care has been taken to ensure all images have effective and descriptive ALT attributes, enabling screen readers and other devices to view the site with or without these images.

Further information or questions

If you would like further information or have any questions please contact us via the contact us page on this site.