Accessibility

Simpson & Marwick are committed to free and open access to our legal services. As such, we have taken great care to ensure our website conforms to the latest technical and legal accessibility standards. Our website content adheres to the RNIB's See It Right Standard which is based on Web Content Accessibility, Guidelines (WCAG).

Adjustable text size
The size of body text on our site can be set and adjusted by you, the user to aid in legibility. This can be achieved either by selecting '+ Enlarge Text / Increase Contrast' (top right on every page) or as follows:

- Internet Explorer - select the 'View' menu, then 'Text Size', then choose from the adjustable settings shown.

- FireFox - select the 'View' menu, then 'Text Size', then either 'Increase' or 'Decrease' from the adjustable settings shown.

- Safari - select the 'View' menu, then either 'Make Text Bigger' or 'Make Text Smaller' from the adjustable settings shown.

- In other browsers - settings vary (please see browser manufacturers documentation for precise details) but normally holding down the CTRL button and scrolling the mouse-wheel up and down will adjust text size accordingly.

Keyboard navigation
Navigating around the site will normally be achieved with a mouse. However, the following keyboard commands are active across the site, in all elements as an assistive aid and shortcut.

- TAB = cycle forwards through links.

- SHIFT + TAB = cycle backwards though links.

- ENTER = select a highlighted link.

In some cases, the order of tabbable items has been specifically setup to run in a certain order. This is to allow, for example, for easy use of online forms and so unexpected jumps around pages form fields and links in the site are kept to a minimum.

You can also jump to specific areas of content or links in the site by using access keys. These shortcuts can be used in most browsers by typing ALT + the access key (on Windows) or Control + the access key (on Mac).

- Access key 1 = link to the website homepage

- Access key 2 = skip to main page content

- Access key 3 = skip to main navigation

- Access key 4 = jump to search field to enter text for a sitewide search

- Access key 5 = toggle increase text and contrast control on / off

- Access key 6 = jump to accessibility statement

- Access key 7 = jump to help / sitemap page

Screen readers
This website has been designed and coded with screen reader technology in mind. These readers allow an audio narration of the site as an alternative to visual input.

Images
Every image throughout the site has been tagged with an ALT attribute. ALT allows alternative description to be given for each image. This allows both screen readers and browsers which don't display images to represent a substitute description.