Accessibility

Accessibility

   

Charterhouse is committed to making the content of this website as accessible to as many people as possible. Under the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA), goods and services must be provided on equal terms to anyone with a disability.

Following the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)'s recommendations we have worked towards AA level (Priorities 1 and 2) accessibility on our site. This website has been passed validation checks for XHTML 1.0 Transitional, CSS and WAI Level A (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0) compliancy.

Text Size

If you would like to change the text size used throughout this website, you can do so via your web browser's menu:
  • Internet Explorer users: go to View > Text Size
  • Opera users: go to View > Zoom
  • Mozilla users: go to View > Increase Text Size

Viewers And Plug-ins

This site contains links to Acrobat and Word documents. To view these you may need to download and install viewers: At the time of writing both of these are free downloads.

Navigation And Access Keys

This site has been designed to allow easy navigation using either the mouse or the keyboard. To navigate using the keyboard use the Tab key to move forwards through links or Shift + Tab to move backwards through links and the Return key to activate a link. Pressing the Backspace key will take you back one page.

Access keys are used to provide keyboard shortcuts as an alternative form of navigation around the website. Usage of access keys differs according to browser:
  • Internet Explorer 5+: Hold down the Alt key and select the access character (see list below), then press Enter
  • Internet Explorer 4: Hold down the Alt key and select the access character (see list below)
  • Internet Explorer 5+ for Mac: Hold down the Ctrl key and select the access character (see list below)
  • Internet Explorer 4.5 for Mac: Access keys are not supported
  • Netscape 6+: Hold down the Alt key and select the access character (see list below)
  • Netscape earlier versions: Access keys are not supported
  • Mozilla: Hold down the Alt key and select the access character (see list below)
  • Opera: In sequence press Shift then Esc and then select the access character (see list below)
The access keys that have been set up for this website are:
  • 1 - Home Page
  • 2 - Latest News
  • 3 - Site Map
  • 4 - The Centre
  • 5 - The Mendip Hills
  • 6 - Directions
  • 7 - News
  • 8 - Links
  • 9 - Contact
  • 0 - Accessibility
  • A - Schools
  • B - Colleges
  • C - Corporate
  • D - Public Events
  • E - Outdoor Skills
  • F - Publications
  • G - Legal

Privacy

Some websites use cookies to "remember" information about you, which are small, harmless files stored on your local hard drive. This website uses cookies only to enable the user to switch between text-only and image versions. No personal or identification information is stored.

If you complete and submit our enquiry form please note that all information is confidential and used strictly for the purpose of processing your enquiry and will not be passed to any other organisation.