5th September, 2010
BETR recognises the importance of providing a website that is accessible to everyone, including people with disabilities.
We seek to be forward compliant in accessibility. This means we make every effort to ensure that everything we have created and published online since 1st December 2009 complies with current accessibility standards.
We will also follow forward best-practice. This means we will try to go beyond current standards to make sure we anticipate new guidelines as they emerge.
However, it is not possible to guarantee that older material previously published by our predecessor bodies and held in our archives will meet accessibility criteria. Much of that legacy material was created without following accessibility standards. It is very difficult to update this material; however, if people with disabilities need access to older documents we will do all we can to help them. For more information on this please contact the webmaster.
If you have difficulty in controlling a mouse to access hyperlinks on a web page you can use keyboard shortcuts, known as accesskeys, to jump to common areas on our website.
On the PDIB website the following keys are assigned as accesskeys:
| Key | Location |
|---|---|
| 0 | Accesskeys information |
| 1 | Jump to the page content |
| 2 | Jump to the page menu |
The majority of browsers support accesskeys.
Refer to your browser’s Help feature for more instructions.
This site uses web standards (including Cascading Style Sheets) to control page layouts and other design details. We aim to ensure that the mark-up language we use to structure the content of these pages follows transitional Extensible Hypertext Mark-up Language (XHTML) rules. The site is compatible with past and present Web browsers, and is prepared for future compatibility.
If you would like further assistance please contact the Webmaster.
To view some content on our site you will need to use a relevant software plug-in or stand-alone application. A plug-in allows you to view a document inside your browser window without having to save the file first.
Below is a list of file formats used on the BETR website which may require you to install a plug-in or stand-alone application.
The most popular PDF viewer is Adobe Acrobat Reader, available as a free download from Adobe’s website. Adobe Acrobat Reader version 9 has enhanced accessibility features.
Adobe Systems provides a free translation service through its Access web pages which will translate PDF files to web pages (HTML documents).
This can be used in one of three ways:
For systems that are not connected to the Internet, Adobe Access is a free downloadable accessibility plug-in for use with the latest versions of the Adobe Acrobat Reader for Microsoft Windows 3.1, Windows 95, or Windows NT. This plug-in helps to overcome some of the problems of reading PDF documents with screen readers, but for systems with Internet access, Adobe recommends using the forms-based Access translation service instead.
If you would like further assistance please contact the Webmaster.
Here is a selection of useful resources for implementing accessibility (the sites will open in a new window):
Call 0844 5611675 or
email info@betr.org.uk
If in doubt please call us on 0844 5611675
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