Accessibility
Accessibility Statement
The Merseyside and Cheshire Group Crown Prosecution Service website has been built with the intention of making the content accessible to the widest range of visitors, regardless of disability. This has been achieved by adhering to best practices, such as compliance with W3C standards and by careful reference to the standards set out by the Office of the E-Envoy.
This official accessibility statement records the main steps that the CPS has taken to accommodate the needs of disabled people.
Access Keys
Some browsers support jumping to specific links by typing keys defined on the web site. On Windows, you can press the alt key and the access key, and then click the return key on your keyboard. For example, to navigate to the sitemap you would click the alt key, the number one key and the return key on your keyboard. On a Macintosh, you can press the ctrl key and the access key.
Please note: access keys are only supported in Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 and above and Netscape 6.x versions.
The pages on this website adhere to the recommended UK Government access keys standard:
S - Skip navigation
3 - Sitemap
4 - Search
6 - Contact Us
8 - Crown Copyright and Disclaimer
0 - Access key details
Standards compliance
The pages on this website have been built to comply with Priority AA standard of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
The pages on this site have been tested, where test results have indicated either a warning or a failure to comply with standards these issues have been addressed, and decisions made individually regarding what we consider to be best practice.
All pages on this site validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
All pages on this site use structured semantic markup. H1 tags are used for main titles, H2, H3 and H4 tags for subtitles.
JAWS users can skip to the next heading within pages on this website by pressing ALTINSERT1, ALTINSERT2, ALTINSERT3 or ALTINSERT4.
Navigation aids
All pages contain a link to the home page and the menu system has been constructed in a consistent fashion throughout the website. The additional breadcrumb navigation system and selective quick links boxes are designed to reinforce awareness of the location of the page that is being viewed within the website, and to increase overall access to all of the information that is available.
All pages on the website include a search box (access key 4); advanced search options are available on the advanced search page.
Links
Many links have title attributes, which describe the link in greater detail. Links are written to make sense out of context.
Images
All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics include null ALT attributes. Complex images include LONGDESC attributes or inline descriptions to explain the significance of each image to non-visual readers.
Visual design
This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.
If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets, the content of each page is still readable.
Fonts
This site uses only relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified text size option in visual browsers.
The most common visual browser is Microsoft Internet Explorer and we have provided the following description of how to change your font size display in Internet Explorer version 6:
- Select 'View' from the top pull down menu options
- Select 'Font Size' from the View menu options
- Select the font size that you prefer from the list of five available options.
Many website visitors with visual difficulties need to increase the font size from the default medium setting to larger or largest. You should be aware that although the CPS website has been built to accommodate changed font sizes, that this is not the case with all websites.
Some web users need to take further steps to make websites visible. Internet Explorer and many other browsers enable you to specify your own Cascading Style Sheet that will override the styling of the websites that you view. This will give you full control of the visual appearance of the text in websites. You can find out more about specifying your own CSS file by using the Help function within your web browser software.
Accessibility references
W3 accessibility guidelines, which explains the reasons behind each guideline.
This accessible website was designed and built by web design agency Ecru
