Elemental Communications Accessibility
Elemental Communications is committed to providing an accessible and usable website for all its users. We appreciate that your needs are as individual as you are, and thus we have done our best to cater for you whilst complying with the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA).
This Website has been designed and built to adhere with the World Wide Web Consortium's Web Accessibility Initiative (W3C WAI) guidelines, and includes many features that allow easier access for users with special requirements. To view accessibility guidelines visit http://www.w3.org/WAI/.
The BBC possesses an excellent comprehensive guide to accessibility, which you may find useful to navigate our website as well. This is available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/accessibility/.
The BBC possesses an excellent comprehensive guide to accessibility, which you may find useful to navigate our website as well. This is available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/accessibility/.
>> User Testing
>> Text Only (Low Graphics)
>> Operating System (OS) Text Re-sizing
>> Documents
>> Images
>> Access Keys
>> Operating System (OS) Access Keys
>> RSS Feeds
>> Sitemap
>> Feedback
User Testing
The Elemental Communications Website underwent thorough and comprehensive testing by on-DLE and Martin Fasani Text Only (Low Graphics)
To view a text-only (no styles or low graphics) version of Webpages click on the Text Only link for the duration of your browser session, Elemental Communications Webpages will display without styles.
Text Size
There are numerous ways that you can change the size of your text to make it easier to read. They are:
- Hold down the CTRL key and press the minus (-) and plus (+) keys to decrease and increase the size of your font. The CTRL key and then zero (0) is for normal-sizing.
- If your mouse has a wheel, pressing CTRL and using the wheel on your mouse increases and decreases the text size on your screen.
- To customise your browser (Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Netscape Navigator or similar) go to View, and then select Text Size. Alternative use the processes below.
Operating System (OS) Text Re-sizing
| OS | Browser | Action |
| Windows | Internet Explorer 5+ | View + Text Size |
| Windows | Mozilla | View + Increase/Decrease Text Size |
| Windows | Netscape 6+ | View + Text Size |
| Windows | Netscape 7 | View + Text Size |
| Mac | Opera 7 | View + Text Zoom |
| Mac | Safari | View + Make Text Bigger/Smaller |
| Mac | Internet Explorer 5+ | View + Text Zoom |
| Mac | Mozilla View | + Increase/Decrease Text Size |
| Mac | Netscape 7 | View + Text Zoom |
| Mac | Opera | Use menu on 'progress' bar |
Documents
Clicking on documents on the Elemental Communications Website (e.g. Excel, plain text, PowerPoint, Word and PDFs and so on) will open them in a new window. Right clicking the documents will present the the option to save them to machine(s).
- Click to download Adobe® Reader® is required to view PDF files.
- Click to download Abode accessibility information.
- Click to download Microsoft Excel Reader for Windows-based desktop PCs and laptops.
- Click to download Microsoft PowerPoint Reader for Windows-based desktop PCs and laptops.
- Click to download Microsoft Word Reader for Windows-based desktop PCs and laptops.
Images
Clicking on images (e.g. logos, photographs, pictures and so on) on the Elemental Communications
Website will open a high resolution version in a seperate window where they can be right clicked and ('Save As') saved to machine(s).
Website will open a high resolution version in a seperate window where they can be right clicked and ('Save As') saved to machine(s).
Keyboard Short Cuts
- For a list of the most common keyboard short cuts (Firefox, Internet Explorer and Opera) visit Mozilla Firefox Keyboard Support http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/keyboard.
- For Apple Operating systems click on Apple's Universal Access Guide.
- Click on Internet Explorer 6 Step by Step Tutorials for Microsoft guidance for version 6.
- Click on Internet Explorer 5 Step by Step Tutorials for Microsoft guidance for version 5.
Access Keys
Different browsers require slightly different key combinations to use an access key. Below are instructions for a range of more popular browers.
Operating System (OS) Access Keys
| OS | Browser | Action |
| Windows | Internet Explorer 4+ | Alt + Access Key, Enter |
| Windows | Mozilla | Alt + Access Key |
| Windows | Netscape 6+ | Alt + Access Key |
| Windows | Opera 7 | Shift + Esc, Access Key |
| Mac OS X | Safari | Ctrl + Access Key |
| Mac OS X | Internet Explorer 5+ | Ctrl + Access Key |
| Mac OS X | Mozilla | Ctrl + Access Key |
| Mac OS X | Netscape 6+ | Ctrl + Access Key |
Elemental Communications Access Keys
How to use our access keys.
Here are Access Keys available for the Elemental Communications website, so you do not have to use your mouse to navigate the site.
Here are Access Keys available for the Elemental Communications website, so you do not have to use your mouse to navigate the site.
| Access Key | Action |
| Access Key - 3 | Home |
| Access Key - 3 | Sitemap |
| Access Key - 4 | Search |
| Access Key - 6 | Help |
| Access Key - 8 | Legal |
| Access Key - 9 | Contact Us |
| Access Key - 0 | Accessibility |
| Access Key - A | About |
| Access Key - M | Media Centre |
| Access Key - N | Skip Navigation |
| Access Key - P | Portfolio |
| Access Key - S | Services |
| Access Key - W | What's On |
Browser Download
| Browser | Download page |
| IE 6.0+ | (download: Windows) |
| Firefox 0.8+ | (download: Windows Mac Linux) |
| Netscape 7.1+ | (download: Windows Mac Linux) |
| Mozilla 1.4+ | (download: Windows Mac Linux) |
| Opera 8.02+ | (download: Windows Mac Linux) |
| Safari 1.2.4+ | (download: Mac) |
RSS Feeds
To subscribe with Elemental's RSS feeds click on the hyperlinks at our RSS Webpage at http://www.elementalcomms.co.uk/rss/ or via your RSS reader choosing which content you wish to receive.
Additionallly, you may choose specific clients' RSS feeds that are of interest from our RSS Webpage. To learn more about how our RSS Feeds work and how to subscribe to them visit our About RSS Feeds http://www.elementalcomms.co.uk/rss/about_rss_feeds/ WebPage.