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Accessibility

This site is designed to be accessible to screen readers.

It has a site navigation bar at the top of each page which has a link (except on the Home page) to skip past the navigation bar to the page content, if so desired .

Users with mobility problems and unable to use a mouse can access pages using the following access keys,

• Alt-0     this accessibility page
• Alt-1     Home page
• Alt-2     beers
• Alt-3     food
• Alt-4     links and search engine

For ease of movement within each page there is an additional access key:

• Alt-9     move to top of page content

This moves the cursor to the top of the page contents only (excluding the top navigation bar and above) as opposed to the home key which takes one to the top of the entire page.

Access keys are supported in different ways by different web browsers:

Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE) works by moving to the specified link, i.e. selecting that link ready for the user to activate it by pressing enter, whereas Mozilla activates the link immediately when the appropriate key combination is pressed.

e.g.   In MSIE, keying Alt-1 enter takes the user to the Home page whereas in Mozilla keying Alt-1 is sufficient to take the user to the page.

With usability, accessibilty and portability in mind, this site is written in XHTML 1.0 Strict and uses CSS 3 to give an elastic design which will display well on any screen size and browser.

The size of the text on this website is set in qualitative instead of quantitative terms. As a result your web browser can easily override the base text size and all of the text will change relative to the size you specify. This is easily demonstrated using Microsoft Internet Explorer's 'Text Size' option: to increase the size of the text select 'View' -> 'Text Size' -> 'Largest': this increases the size of all the text proportionally.

Please be aware that changing the base text size whilst browsing this website will impact upon its layout: the site has been designed to 'flow' to fill the browser window (to make use of the extra space available at higher screen resolutions) but increasing text size to a very large value may cause some page elements to overlap.

Cascading Style Sheets

All of the formatting on this site is accomplished with the use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). This means that you can use the CSS functions provided by your web browser to override any/all of the formatting used on this site, or indeed to remove all formatting. For more information about viewing web pages using your own style sheets instead of those provided by a website's author we refer you to the help files provided with your web browser.

This site is designed by Stuart Foulstone of BigEasy Web Design , to whom suggestions on improving these features (or any other comments) may be emailed - Alt-m <enter>.