GO Wales

Accessibility

GO Wales is committed to providing accessible information for all users, including people with physical or sensory impairments or individuals reading English as a second or other language. GO Wales actively works towards improving standards of accessibility and usability for its website.

If you would like further information or are experiencing problems accessing parts of the GO Wales’ website, please ask a question through our website Helpdesk .

Standards compliance

GO Wales aims to comply with priority 1 and 2 guidelines of the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). We are striving towards validating all pages as XHTML 1.0 Transitional, whilst using structured semantic markup, with CSS 2.1 for page design. However, GO Wales cannot guarantee the standards compliance of third party plugins and tools within this website.

Access keys

For accessibility, GO Wales provides some content that can be accessed through keyboard functionality.

Most modern browsers support jumping to key links by typing keys defined on the web site. On Windows, this is done by pressing ALT + an access key, on Macintosh, press Cmd + an access key.

All pages on this site define the following access keys:

  • Access key 1 - Home page.
  • Access key 2 - Skip to content.
  • Access key 3 - Site map.
  • Access key 4 - Put cursor in the search box.
  • Access key 6 - Help accessing our site.
  • Access key 0 - Help/Accessibility details (this page).

Text resizing

The text on this website can resize according to each user’s needs. The text can be resized from the browser toolbar, or on Windows by holding down the Control key and pressing the + or – key.

External content

Within this website there are links to external websites. GO Wales cannot guarantee the standards compliance for these external websites.