Accessibility

Saint Paul's commitment to accessibility

We hope this page helps you to get more out of our website. Here at Saint Paul's Academy we have followed the guidelines listed by the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) to ensure that the HTML code employed makes it easy to use speech-output and other assistive technology.

Accessibility for all users

We are very happy that we have succeeded in creating a website which is accessible to a wide variety of users. The World Wide Web Consortium's WAI guidelines state that, in order for a website to be considered accessible, it must stick to the rules as set out in Priority I and Priority II checkpoints. We have fulfilled these and all other fixed conditions for Priorities I and II. We have used expandable text and contrasting colours and have worked to ensure that this website will support various individual customisation choices with the use of up-to-date browser technology. We are therefore pleased to commend our site to all users regardless of their physical or technological disability.

Online forms

All forms on this site have been carefully designed and tested for accessibility and use. We have tried to ensure that all forms are accommodating, regardless of the platform, connectivity or ability.

Downloading documents

Every effort has been made to ensure that files on this site are available and accessible in HTML format. However, from time to time larger files may require other formats such as Adobe PDF (Portable Document Format).
Click here to download the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Note:

Users with visual difficulties may find it helpful to
click here to access services provided to improve the accessibility of Acrobat documents.

Colours

Every effort has been made to use colours on this website that allow for maximum contrast between foreground and background items as well as various features including headers, body text and hyperlinks.

Help for Internet Explorer users

Changing the colour of the text or the background:

• Select Internet Options from the Tools or View menu (depending on your browser version);
• Click on the Colors button and uncheck the box 'Use Windows colors';
• To modify the colour of text, click on the button to the right of Text, select your colour from the palette and click OK;
• To modify the background colour, click on the button to the right of Background, select your colour from the palette and click OK.

Removing images:

• Select Internet Options from the Tools or View menu (depending on your browser version);
• Click on the Advanced tab at the top right hand side corner of the window;
• Scroll down to the Multimedia heading;
• Uncheck the box next to 'Show pictures';
• Click on the Apply button and then click OK.

Changing text font:

• Select Internet Options from the Tools or View menu (depending on your browser version);
• Click on the Accessibility button and check the box under Formatting 'Ignore font styles specified on Web pages';
• Click OK;
• Click on the Fonts button;
• Choose your font from the drop-down menu under 'Web page font';
• Click the OK button.

Changing the size of the text:

• Select Internet Options from the Tools or View menu (depending on your browser version);
• Click on the Accessibility button and check the box under Formatting 'Ignore font sizes specified on Web pages';
• Click OK;
• Click OK again to close Internet Options;
• Select the View option from the Menu bar;
• Select the Text Size option;
• Choose your preferred text size.

For more information click here to visit the Microsoft Help and Support site.

Using your own style sheet:

Our website uses a style sheet but you may wish to use your own. To do this, you must:

• Select Internet Options from the Tools or View menu (depending on your browser version);
• Click on the Accessibility button and check the box under User Style sheet 'Format documents using my style sheet';
• Click on Browse to select your style sheet;
• Select your style sheet;
• Click OK.

I can't use a mouse. What do I do?

Many of our key pages can be reached by using Access Keys, if you have your own key press activator, or need to use keys then you should still be able to use much of the website as you would with a mouse.