Accessibility
Knowes Housing Association Accessibility Statement
Knowes Housing Association is committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of technology or ability. We are actively working to increase the accessibility and usability of our website and in doing so adhere to many of the available standards, guidelines and best practice.
Markup Validity
This website is built using code compliant with World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards for web page markup (XHTML) and their appearance (Cascading Style Sheets or CSS). W3C is the governing authority on web development standards and practices.
Double-A conformance
As a minimum our website endeavours to conform to level Double-A of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0.
These guidelines explain how to make web content more accessible for people with disabilities. Conformance with these guidelines will help make the web more user friendly for all people.
Due to the large number of pages contained in this web site and the fact that page content is heavily based on user input, there may be pages that do not conform to all the guidelines. If you have any problem accessing any information on the site, you can advise us and and we will endeavour to provide the information in a suitable manner.
Browser text-sizing
Most popular browsers feature a text resizing tool in the toolbar.This tool is also available in the menu of various browsers as follows:
| Internet Explorer 5, 5.5, 6, 7: | View > Text Size |
| Firefox 2, Netscape 8: | View > Text Size |
| Firefox 3: | View > Zoom > Zoom Text Only > Zoom In |
| Opera: | View > Zoom |
| Netscape 6, 7, Mozilla: |
View > Text Zoom |
| Safari: | View > Make Text Bigger |
* for a more comprehensive guide to using your browser zoom functionality please visit our Resizing text in your browser page.
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