Accessibility

NCCW is committed to accessibility of its website to everyone and as such has designed this new website using W3C guidelines.

To find out more about W3C and accessibility visit http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/accessibility.php

W3C WAI-A WCAG 1.0

WCAG 1.0 has 14 guidelines that are general principles of accessible design. The NCCW website aims to conform to these guidelines and has been built and developed with all of the Priority 1 checkpoints in mind. This enables us to display the WAI-A logo on our site.

The checklist of these guidelines can be seen here: http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/full-checklist.html
Or by clicking on the WAI-A logo on the bottom right of the home page and also on bottom of the main tab sections introduction pages.

W3C XHTML 1.0

The NCCW website aims to conform to the W3C XHTML 1.0 standard. We regularly check content pages for XHTML compliance.

Why?

Alternate ways of accessing the Internet are constantly being introduced. By using XHTML guidelines our web pages will be viewable with a wide range of hardware using a variety of different browsers.

What are the benefits?

• Smaller file sizes therefore our pages will load faster.
• Increased portability
• Increased accessibility

Validation reports

All validated pages display the W3C XHTML 1.0 logo in the bottom right hand corner. You can check the validity of any of these pages at any time by clicking on this logo.