Accessibility and Standards Compliance
We ensure that we meet or exceed the requirements of both the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) and Section 508 of the American Workforce Investment Act of 1998. We strive to obey the spirit of the UK Disability Discrimination Act 1995 with respect to the provision of services online, as required by the Disability Rights Commission. We aim to make all our pages validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional and use structured semantic mark-up.
Accessible Design
Many Internet users with disabilities find websites difficult or even impossible to use simply because of the way they are designed. The ETUC website is designed to be as accessible as possible and to be compatible with the types of adaptive technology used by people with disabilities, including screen readers.
Cascading Style Sheets
CSS, short for Cascading Style Sheets, a new feature added to HTML that gives both Web site developers and users more control over how pages are displayed. With CSS, designers and users can create style sheets that define how different elements, such as headers and links, appear. These Style Sheets can then be applied to any Web page. The ETUC site useS 2 CSS styles one for screen and one for print - making the site more accessible to users.
Browser Compatibility
The site is optimised for Internet Explorer 5.5 and above, Netscape 6 and Safari 2.0.4 but will work with most older browsers.
Resizable fonts
The text is equivalent to 12pt and in Arial or Helvetica. You may change the font size of this document to your preference through your browser. In Internet Explorer, select View, then Text Size, and then your preferred size. In Netscape select View, then Text Zoom, and then your preferred percentage size.
Downloading Portable Document Format (PDF) Files
Documents marked PDF are saved in Portable Document Format (PDF). To read them you will need a copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader. The Acrobat Reader software is available for downloading free of charge here.
Viewers with visual difficulties may find it useful to investigate services provided by Adobe to improve the accessibility of Adobe Acrobat documents here.
