Accessibility

We aim to provide equal access to Vision Mapper for all users. Every effort has been made to ensure that the site’s design conforms to web standards for usability and accessibility.

Whilst creating the website, we incorporated recommendations and best practice from the W3C’s (World Wide Web Consortium's) WAI (Web Accessibility Initiative) guidelines.

The site uses XHTML code to provide document structure and CSS (Cascading Stylesheets) to provide document formatting. By following guidelines set down by the W3C we can make sure that all the information on our website is available to everybody: not just the text, but the information contained in the images and other media. Using these technologies also allows us to provide a website that loads faster, and displays in more devices. We believe the website template set contains valid XHTML and CSS code and meets Priority 2 (AA) of the Web Accessibility Initiative's guidelines.

We've involved users throughout the development of Vision Mapper, following a user-centred design (UCD) process. We've worked with users including heads and teachers, architects, local authority representatives, and other education decision makers to inform and test the features, activities and the way that Vision Mapper works.

More about this process can be found in About Vision Mapper.

To ensure this website is as accessible as possible, Futurelab:

• Set accessibility targets prior to development
• Measured progress towards those targets during development
• Continues to monitor accessibility now the site is live.

Resizing text

If you're using Internet Explorer or Firefox, you can change the size of the text on our website by going to the View menu and selecting one of the options from the Text Size menu.