Web Accessibility Statement
Sight Life’s website has been designed and developed with the needs of people with sight loss and disability in mind. We’ve also taken on board international guidance and best practice on web accessibility.
As a charity supporting people living with sight loss, we are committed to ensuring everyone can access and use our website on multiple devices. This includes people with sight problems, hearing loss, mobility and cognitive impairments. If you have any comments, feedback or suggestions about the Sight Life website, please don’t hesitate to contact us by emailing [email protected], or calling us on 029 2039 8900. We are continually seeking solutions that bring all areas of our site up to the same level of web accessibility. If you experience any difficulty, please let us know immediately so that we can work to rectify the issue as quickly as possible.
The site is tested regularly to ensure that we are working towards the high standards we work to uphold. It has been built using code that complies with W3C standards for HTML and CSS, so that it displays correctly in current browsers, and will continue to display correctly in any browsers used in the future.
Image Alt text and accessibility
As standard we only use Alt text where an image conveys essential information for the meaning of the page – for example, a diagram about how to do something. Where an image is purely decorative, we don’t add alt text, as this is can be superfluous information, making it harder for someone using a screenreader to sift through the extra text and reach the key information on a page. Any images which don’t have alt text have an empty alt tag which is indicated using “”.
Further reading
If you are interested, you can read on about the W3C and their international standards for web accessibility. Their frequently-asked questions are a good place to start.
