Pictons is committed to ensuring that pictons.com is available to as many sectors of the user community as possible.
Our aim is to make this website as accessible as possible for all users.
If you experience problems we would like to know so that we can make corrections where necessary.
If you find areas of the site that are difficult to access, need any of the material contained within it in an alternative format or simply have any comments about the website, please email info@pictons.co.uk.
The following accessibility features have been incorporated on our website:
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There is a text equivalent for every non-text element
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Documents are organised so that they can be read without Style Sheets
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When scripts, applets, or other programmatic objects are turned off all pages are still useable
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Relative units are used in fonts so that users can control the text size
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No pop-up or new windows are used without informing the user
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Navigation mechanisms are used in a consistent manner
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All event-handlers are device independent
While we have tried to ensure that this website is as accessible as possible, if you are having a problem or have any comments regarding the accessibility, please contact us at info@pictons.co.uk and we will do our best to help.
Exclusion: There are few sections on the site, for example the Service Centre Locator, Flash presentations and maps, which are interactive and do not comply with Bobby AA standards.
Accessibility Validation
This site uses CSS, XHTML 1.0 Transitional and conforms with Conformance Level “Double-A” of the WCAG (Priorities 1 and 2), verified by Bobby AA certification
Bobby is an independent code checker that is used to check accessibility in accordance with the W3C’s Web Accessibility Guidelines 1.0. Each individual page of the site has been tested and passed.
Accessibility Standards
1. All pages on this site support XHTML 1.0 Transitional [Extensible HyperText Markup Language version 1.0 Transitional DTD]. This is indicated inside the <!doctype> tags on all pages:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
The pages have been tested against the standards for Transitional HTML given by World Wide Web Consortium [www.w3c.org] as indicated by the following icon:
2. All pages on this site feature CSS [Cascading Style Sheets]. Some browsers do not support all features in CSS and as a consequence you might experience irregularities in the design.
Issues have been known to occur using these browsers:
The pages have been tested against the standards given by World Wide Web Consortium [www.w3c.org] as indicated by the following icon:
Netscape Navigator/Communicator 4.x users are deliberately excluded from some features due to the poor support for Cascading Style Sheets. Recent Netscape versions (6, 7, 8) have increased support for CSS
3. This site has been tested against:
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Microsoft Internet Explorer (PC) 5.0, 5.5, 6 SP2, 7
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Microsoft Internet Explorer (Mac) 5.2
- Mozilla Firefox 1 - 2
- Safari 1.2, 1.3, 2.2
- Opera 5*, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Netscape Navigator 4.7*, 6, 7, 8
*denotes some design irregularities.
This site has been evaluated on the basis of Priority 1 and 2 items in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines as indicated by this icon:
By displaying this logo this site indicates a claim of conformance by the page author or content provider to conformance level Double-A of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, including all Priority 1 and Priority 2 checkpoints defined in the Guidelines. The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 explain how to make Web content accessible to people with disabilities. Conformance to these Guidelines will help make the Web more accessible to users with disabilities and will benefit all users.