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Accessibility

Dreams Project is fully committed to ensuring its website is accessible and inclusive for all its users.
Web accessibility focuses on ensuring all users, regardless of their physical and mental capability, are able to
access the content and services on a particular website.
Our aim has been to make Dreams Project accessible to all. Its design and build has taken into account the following
guidelines:

The WC3 Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) www.w3.org/
The Disability Discrimination Act (DDA, part three) - www.disability.gov.uk/dda

Where possible this site has valid XHTML 1.0 Strict and valid CSS as described by the WAI

These guidelines include:

Allowing users to control text sizes.
Using an easy to read font type.
Ensuring suitable foreground and background colour contrast.
Using clear and simple grammar.
Providing meaningful text equivalents for pictures.
Providing simple and consistent site navigation.
Assigning access keys for key navigational elements.
Ensuring the target of each link is clearly defined.
Providing a full sitemap
Providing navigational short cuts for users of text only browsers and page readers.
Using appropriate structural mark-up to maximise browser support.
Ensuring all content and functionality is available to users without content style sheet (CSS),
image and script support.

Multimedia

We host a number of different video clips on the site both to give people a wider view of our bid and to make
our content more accessible to people who find it easier to view rather than read content.
We have included these clips in the two main media formats (Real Player and Windows Media Player)
which are suitable for a variety of different connection types and speeds.
What we have not done, owing to cost implications, is to provide transcripts of each of the video clips.
This policy will be reviewed in the event of a successful bid.

Access Keys

Our main navigation options have been assigned keyboard access keys for users who do not use pointing devices
(such as a mouse).
The access keys we have used are based on the UK Governments recommendations.

Section   Access key
Home page       1
Main content      2
Site map           3
Search              4
FAQs                5
Contact us        9
Accessibility statement 0

To use an access key in Mozilla browsers press the 'Alt' key plus the access key listed below. In Internet Explorer,
press the 'Alt' key plus the access key, and then press return. If you use a different Internet browser,
please refer to its help documentation.