Accessibility Statement

Custom Widgets is committed to making our work accessible to all and we encourage feedback from our users. If you have a comment relating to your experience of using this website, please forward your comments to info@custom-widgets.co.uk so we can continue to improve effective access for all visitors.

If you are using a screen reader, please leave full details of the name and manufacturer of the screen reader as this will help us with troubleshooting.

1. Adjustable text size

The size of body text on our site can be determined by the user. These are the main ways to change text size:

• 1.1 Internet Explorer > Select the View menu, then Text Size, then a setting from the list of five sizes.
• 1.2 FireFox > Select the View menu, then Text Size, then either Increase or Decrease from the menu list.
• 1.3 Safari > Select the View menu, then either Make Text Bigger or Make Text Smaller.
• 1.4 All Browsers > Holding down the CTRL button and scrolling the mouse-wheel up and down will adjust text size accordingly.

2. Keyboard navigation

Navigating around the site is possible without the mouse. The following keyboard commands are active across the site:

• 2.1 TAB - to cycle forwards through links.
• 2.2 SHIFT + TAB - to cycle backwards though links.
• 2.3 ENTER - to select a highlighted link.

3. Screen Readers

Screen readers allow for an audio narration of the site as an alternative to visual content. The three leading screen readers are:

• 3.1 JAWS compliance - produced by Freedom Scientific.
• 3.2 Window Eyes compliance- produced by GW Micro.
• 3.3 Home Page Reader compliance- produced by IBM.

4. Images

Alt tags allow both screen readers and browsers which don't display images to represent a substitute description of any given image.

• 4.1 Every image throughout this site has been tagged with an ALT attribute.

5. Validation

To facilitate the accessibility features we provide, it is vital that all pages of this site are w3C compliant.

• 5.1 Everypage of this website validates as compliant XHTML and CSS with the W3C.