Accessibility statement
Access Keys
Access keys are shortcuts to provide quick and easy access to common pages without the need for a mouse and have been included to assist users with disabilities navigate the web site more easily.
Listed below are the access keys we use consistently on every page of the site.
* 1 - Homepage
* 2 - Collections
* 3 - Interactive
* 4 - Friends
* 5 - Friends
* 6 - Museum Education Service
* 7 - Contact Us
How to use access keys
PC/Windows: press 'alt + access key number' to highlight the link. On Internet Explorer you will then have to hit 'enter' to go to the corresponding page.
Macintosh: press 'control + access key number' to highlight the link, then 'return' to go to the corresponding page.
Text Size
This site uses only relative font sizes and therefore is compatible with the user-specified text size option in visual browsers. The text size can be changed in Internet Explorer through the View > Text Size menu. And in Mozilla/Netscape, through the View > Text Zoom menu.
Alt text
All images that are used to illustrate content include the alt attribute to provide descriptive text alternatives. Images that have a decorative function have an 'empty' alt attribute.
Link Titles
A title attribute has been added to links which describe the link in greater detail. If the text of the link provides a clear explanation of the 'target' then the title attribute has not been used.
Web Standards
This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout and is built to W3C standards. The HTML and CSS is valid and the site has been built according to the W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 level AA.
Carisbrooke Castle Museum endeavours at all times to make the site as accessible as reasonably possible to all users. In no way does Carisbrooke Castle Museum seek to deliberately discriminate against any users access to the website service in accordance with the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.
Browser Compatibility
We test all our sites in all modern browsers on Windows, MacOSX and Linux. All pages on this site use structured semantic markup.
If your browser or browsing device does not support modern coding techniques, the content of each page is still readable and is presented in a logical order.