Accessibility and browser compatibility statement

"Accessibility" is the assessment of how easily a website may be used by users regardless of any impairments they may have which affect they way in which they can interact with the website. This site is designed to ensure its content is as accessible to all its users as possible, including visitors with visual or motor impairments.

Should you encounter any problems in accessing these pages, or you would like to suggest improvements, please contact the website administration team.

Standards compliance

Our aim is for all pages to comply with priority 1 and 2 guidelines of the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

We set high standards for the publication of web content, including ensuring adherence to markup standards (X-HTML Strict), creation of well-worded and concise content, and ensuring our webteam are well-trained in the creation of accessible and usable websites.

Text resizing

The text on this website is built to resize in order to be as flexible as possible to users with different needs. Text can be increased or decreased from your browser tool bar, or on Windows.

  • Tip: if you have a mouse with a scroll wheel, you can hold down CTRL (Windows) or CMD/Apple symbol (Mac) and scroll the wheel backwards or forwards to alter the text size.

Exceptions

Within these pages there are links to external sites which we do not control. As a result, we cannot guarantee the level of compliance of these external pages.

Related links and further reading

Accessibility software

  • Browse Aloud: free software that works with your browser to read aloud on Browse Aloud enabled websites (including this site)
  • JAWS: a screen reader for Windows.
  • Home Page Reader: a screen reader for Windows.
  • Opera: a web browser with enhanced accessibility-related features which include text zooming, and the use of customised user stylesheets. Windows, Macintosh, Linux, versions available.
  • Firefox: a similar browser to opera, also with a wide range of accessibility features. Available for all common operating systems.

Getting the most from your computer and web browser

Web browser support

With several hundred web browsers available on a range of computers, hand-held devices, and other gadgets, it is virtually impossible guarantee that any website will appear identical in all.

Our aim for the KSS Deanery website is that this website should function and appear at its best in the latest versions of the major web browsers; this includes Internet Explorer 7 and 8, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Apple Safari, and Opera. If you spot a problem with this site in your web browser, we would be very grateful if you could send our webteam a message so they can work on rectifying the problem - you can contact the webteam here.

Support for older web browsers

We also aim to ensure that this website bears a close resemblance when viewed in the previous major generation of the most commonly-used web browsers. This would include, for example, Internet Explorer 6, Firefox 2, and so on.

As older browsers may not be able to properly handle the newer features implemented on this website, there may be some areas which appear different, or which don't work as they should. Should this happen to you, please let the webteam know so they can determine whether the problem can be fixed - you can contact the webteam here.

Mobile browsing

We also provide a mobile-formatted version of this site at m.kssdeanery.org to offer an alternative browsing experience for users on older, slower or otherwise more limited devices. This version of the website has some technical limitations - for example, JavaScript is not supported in order to improve page loading speeds - which may make some areas of the mobile site difficult to use. We aim to improve these areas on an as-needed basis, so please contact the webteam should you find a problem which you think we should be working on.