Accessibility
As a leading Internet company Bronco are commited to ensuring our website is accessible to a diverse audience. We have strived to design and build our website to the highest standards of accessibility, however we are aware that some of our users may still experience problems. If you have any suggestions or questions regarding the accessibility of our site please contact us.
Accessibility Features
This site contains a range of features aimed to improve the accessibility and usability for our users:
Tab Index
The tabindex function allows users to move through selected elements in the page one by one by using the 'Tab' key. Once all the elements with an assigned tabindex have been selected, the 'Tab' key will continue through the remaining elements of the page in the order they appear in the source code. Using the tabindex allows easy and quick access to important elements of the page without the use of a mouse.
Pressing the 'F5' key will reset the tabindex and refresh the page.
Access Keys
Access keys provide a more direct form of keyboard navigation. By using a combination of keystrokes a navigation link can be activated in the same way as if it were selected using the mouse. The keystrokes required to activate an access key are different for various browsers. The necessary keystrokes are:
- PC Browsers: ALT + * + ENTER(Required for Internet Explorer)
- Mac Browsers: CTRL + *
- Firefox 2.0: ALT + SHIFT + *
The * chracter represents a unique character for each access key, the selected access keys are listed below:
- 1 = Home
- 2 = Sitemap
- 3 = Contact
- 4 = Accessibility
If the above access keys do not work in your browser please refer to the help documentation available with your browser. If you still experience problems feel free to contact us.
Text Scalability
To improve the readability of the site for our users we have used relative text sizes for our content. This allows the user to manually control the size of the text in the website using their browser. Most browsers provide the ability to scale the text within a website via an option under the 'View' menu, or via a keyboard shortcut. Please refer to your browser documentation for more information on altering text size.
Sitemap
Through the design process of our website ease of navigation was very important to us, however we understand that some users may experience problems. For this reason we have provided a sitemap containing a comprehensive list of the top level pages within the website. Any pages that do not appear on this sitemap are fully accessible as text links within the content of these pages.
Alt Text
Our website uses numerous images to provide a distinctive graphical experience. In places these images are used to convey potentially useful information, where this occurs the image has been given an associative alt tag either containing any text displayed within the image or containing a description of what the image conveys.
Some images within the site are displayed using CSS, in these instances hidden text has been placed within the website for the access of third party software such as screen readers.
Accessibility Barriers
Text Scalability
Due to the way the website has been designed and built some content may become inaccessible when the text is resized. If you experience any problems please contact us and we would be happy to provide you with any inaccessible content.
Javascript
In order to improve the user experience sections of our website utilises Javascript. To use these controls your browser must support Javascript. However where Javascript has been used we have attempted to provide alternatives that provide the same high level of user experience.
The Bronco website has been designed and tested to conform to XHTML and CSS web standards and has undergone web based accessibility tests for both WCAG AAA and Section 508 accessibility specifications.
