Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can use the Web. More specifically, Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with the Web, and that they can contribute to the Web. Web accessibility also benefits others, including older people with changing abilities due to aging.

This is the official accessibility statement for the Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland. If you have any questions or comments please feel free to provide us with feedback

Standards Compliance

All pages on this site are WCAG-AA approved - complying with all priority 1 checkpoints of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines v 2.0. (more about WAI compliance). All pages validate against the W3C Validator tool as XHTML. All pages conform to eGMS 2.0 - the UK Government's metadata standard.

Navigation aids

Many links have title attributes which describe the link in greater detail. In-page links are written to make sense out of context.

Design

The site uses Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for layout and visual formatting (with rare exception for certain components of some pages). All fonts are scalable - most browsers provide a means to specify default base text-size. The site is of fixed width design and created for the 1024*768 resolution.

Accessibility software

All main browsers now have accessibility support built in, whilst many provide further accessibility support via add-ons.

Other accesibility software also exists, some of these are listed below:

• JAWS, a screen reader for Windows. A time-limited, downloadable demo is available.
• Home Page Reader, a screen reader for Windows. A downloadable demo is available.