Accessibility Statement and help
The Midcounties Co-operative Society is committed to accessibility and our aim is to make our website accessible to all.
Government guidelines and the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) guidelines lay down standards for website compliance. Our aim is to meet WAI AA accessibility guidelines, complying with all priority 1 and 2 requirements and many of the priority 3 checkpoints of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
Access keys
Access keys are keyboard shortcuts that provide an alternative navigation method for the website user.
The use of access keys depends upon the operating system being used.
Access keys are only supported by Internet Explorer 4 or above and Netscape 6X versions.
NOTE:
- For Windows - press ALT + Accesskey then ENTER
- For Macintosh - press Control + Accesskey
We have implemented the Government guidelines that recommend the use of the following access keys:
Accesskey 0 (zero)
This is the page that list the menu of accesskeys that are being used within the website and also lists the services that they link to.
- Accesskey S - Skip navigation
- Accesskey 1 (one) - Home page
- Accesskey 4 - To the search facility on the site
- Accesskey 5 - Frequently asked questions (F A Qs)
- Accesskey 6 - Help page/facility
- Accesskey 7 - Complaints procedure
- Accesskey 8 - Terms and conditions (including privacy statement)
- Accesskey 9 - Feedback page
Global search box
Most pages on this website have a search box by default. The search box is properly labelled and has an accesskey="4" to allow fast access to search for all users.
Design and layout
All pages on this site validate as HTML 4.01 and CSS2
This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.
The content of each page is still readable even if a user's browser or browsing device does not support style sheets.
We have tried to use colours throughout the Web site that provide maximum contrast between foreground and background items.
Many links in this website have title attributes, which describe the link in greater detail. Links are written to make sense out of context.
All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes.Purely decorative graphics include null ALT attributes. Complex images include LONGDESC attributes or inline descriptions to explain the significance of each image to non-visual readers.
Text-only version
A text-only version of this website site is available to help visually impaired users access information. Selecting this option displays all of the text, but does not display any graphics, images or photographs.
Documents on the Website
As much information as possible is presented as web paage(html)content.
Where this is not possible, in cases where the information may be too large or constantly changing the information is presented in Adobe PDF format.
Portable Document Format (PDF)
Adobe® Acrobat® Reader is free software that lets you view and print Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Click here to download Acrobat Reader.
The latest versions of Adobe PDF support accessibility features including keyboard shortcuts, support for screen readers and refreshable Braille output as well as help for visual impaired readers.Full information can be found on the adobe website at access.adobe.com