Standards compliance
studentloanrepayment.co.uk 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 adheres to many of the available standards and guidelines.
This website endeavours to conform to level’ A’ of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0.
Whilst studentloanrepayment.co.uk strive to adhere to the accepted guidelines and standards for accessibility and usability, it is not always possible to do so in all areas of the website. The secure areas of the site cannot accessed through the Opera Browser and other browsers that share its User Agent (such as the text browser Lynx).
Navigation aids
The home page and all subsequent pages include search functionality to search the sites content.
The pages in the site follow a natural tab order. Where this is not the case, the tab order has been set in the code to force a user down the correct logical order of the page.
Access Keys
We maintain the current government standard access keys which are:
1 - home page
3 - site map
7 - complaints/contact us
8 - terms and conditions
9 - feedback
0 - accessibility help
s - skip to main content
The access key noted above should take the user to the main content of the page, bypassing repetitive content such as navigation.
Most browsers support jumping to specific links by typing keys defined on the web site.
- On Windows, you can press ALT + an access key;
- On Macintosh, you can press Control + an access key.
Links
There are no "JavaScript:" pseudo-links. All links can be followed in any browser, even if scripting is turned off. There are no links that open new windows without warning.
Images
All content images used on the site have descriptive ALT attributes.
The site makes extensive use of Cascading Style Sheets and most images are in the ‘background’ of the page and not registered by screen readers. This is worth noting when using the ‘disable image’ feature of some browsers.
Text Sizes
All the text on the site is controlled by style sheet and is scaleable by altering your browser settings. To change the size of the text displayed in your browser…
In Internet Explorer 6:
- Go to View menu
- Select Text Size
- Select the size of text you would like (smallest, small, larger or Largest)
More guidance on IE6 can be found at: http://www.microsoft.com/enable/products/ie6/default.aspx
In Firefox:
- Go to ‘View Menu’
- Select ‘Text Size'
- And then select Increase or Decrease
In Safari:
- choose 'Preferences'
- click on 'Appearance’
- go to 'Standard Font’ and click ‘Select’
- select the font size from the ‘sizes’ menu
