Accessibility Statement

Appleton Piling Ltd are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of technology or ability. We are actively working to increase the accessibility and usability of our website and in doing so adhere to many of the available standards and guidelines.

Web Accessibility Initiative

This website endeavours to conform to level A of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0. These guidelines explain how to make web content more accessible for people with disabilities. Conformance with these guidelines will help make the web more user friendly for all people.

W3C Standards

This site has been built using code compliant with W3C standards for XHTML and CSS. The site displays correctly in current browsers and using standards compliant XHTML/CSS code means any future browsers will also display it correctly.

Exceptions

Whilst this website strives to adhere to the accepted guidelines and standards for accessibility and usability, it is not always possible to do so in all areas of the website. We are continually seeking out solutions that will bring all areas of the site up to the same level of overall accessibility. In the meantime should you experience any difficulty in accessing the website, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Colour

No website content relies purely on colour to convey meaning, and every effort has been made to ensure that colour contrasts are sufficient to be readable by colour-impared users or in grayscale.

Use of Stylesheets

This website uses 'clean' XHTML and CSS Markup in conjunction with external stylesheets to allow for faster page and website loading and the ability to selectively view content in plain text without styling, colour, sizing and layout.

Relative Font Sizes

Relative font sizes are used throughout the site to allow for users to to be able to resize text size through their browsers or assisting technology.