Accessibility

The Earth Restoration Service is committed to providing a website that is accessible and easy to use for the widest range of visitors possible, regardless of disability or impairment. We believe that this is an ongoing process and are constantly seeking to improve in this area.

The site has been designed to adhere to best practice by following W3C standards. Pages have been built to comply with a minimum standard of WCAG 2.0 single 'A' guidelines. Wherever possible we aim to extend this to 'AA' and 'AAA' compliance.

There are a number of steps we have taken to address accessibility needs that are detailed below:

Layout

The site uses Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to control all presentation and layout so that content is well structured and easily accessible via assistive devices.

Text size can be increased or decreased in your browser by following these steps:

Text size can be increased or decreased in your browser by following these steps:

Microsoft Internet Explorer

• Choose the drop down menu at the top of the window of the browser marked "view"
• A list of options will appear in the drop down menu, choose "text size"
• Next another drop down menu should appear with options including "small", "medium", "large", "largest"
• Select "largest"

Mozilla Firefox

• Hold down the Ctrl button on your keyboard and press the plus (+) key
• You will find that this will enlarge the text, to enlarge again repeat the procedure
• Keep repeating until the text is enlarged to your requirements If you need to make the text smaller press Ctrl on your keyboard and the minus (-) key

Apple Safari

• Hold down the Apple Key and press the (+) key
• You will find that this will enlarge the text, to enlarge again repeat the procedure
• Keep repeating until the text is enlarged to your requirements
• If you need to make the text smaller press the Apple Key on your keyboard and press the (-) key

Google Chrome

• Click the 'Customise and Control' spanner symbol in the top right hand corner (Alt + E).
• Select 'Settings' ('Preferences' on Mac and Linux)
• Click on 'Under the Bonnet' and customise your fonts and font size in the 'Web Content' section

COntent

Content across the site has been written and formatted to make it as accessible as possible. This includes:

• The use of semantic headings which are descriptive and used to highlight sections of text
• Clear and easy to understand language
• Meaningful text used for all links
• No information is conveyed exclusively through the use of colour

Colour contrast

Wherever possible we have designed pages and chosen colours to be accessible to colour-blind users. Where contrast is limited, we are working towards a solution by reviewing our current colour palette.

Rich media content

We are committed to providing transcripts and/or subtitles for key pieces of new video content available on the website. We are using YouTube descriptions and captioning. These captions can be accessed by clicking the 'CC' button within the video player.

We also plan to retrospectively provide such information for key video features produced prior to redesigning this website.

Access keys

In order to avoid any conflict with personal access keys you may have set up on your computer, we have chosen not to install bespoke access keys on this site. Efforts have been made to ensure the site is as easy to navigate as possible.

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