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Accessibility

M Shed, as part of Bristol City Council, is committed to providing a website that's accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of technology or ability.

The site has been designed to adhere to best practice by following W3C standards. Pages have been built to comply with a minimum standard of WCAG 2.0 single 'A' guidelines. Wherever possible we aim to extend this to 'AA' and 'AAA' compliance.

Should you have any suggestion to improve the accessibility of the site, please let us know.

There are a number of steps we have taken to address accessibility needs that are detailed below:

Layout
 The site uses Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to control all presentation and layout so that content is well structured and easily accessible via assistive devices.

Fonts
 All font sizes are relative, with the exception of graphical text which is used only minimally. Text size can be increased or decreased in your web browser by following these steps:

Windows browsers:

  • Open your preferred web browser (applies to Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome)
  • Hold down the Ctrl button on your keyboard and press the plus (+) key
  • You will find that this will enlarge the text, to enlarge again repeat the procedure
  • Keep repeating until the text is enlarged to your requirements 
  • If you need to make the text smaller press ctrl on your keyboard and the minus ( - ) key

 Apple browsers

  • Open your preferred web browser (applies to Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome)
  • Hold down the Apple key on your keyboard and press the plus (+) key
  • You will find that this will enlarge the text, to enlarge again repeat the procedure
  • Keep repeating until the text is enlarged to your requirements If you need to make the text smaller press the Apple key on your keyboard and the minus ( - ) key

Images
 All images used for non aesthetic reasons have descriptive alternative text. 

Content
 Content across the site has been written and formatted to make it as accessible as possible. This includes:

  • The use of semantic headings which are descriptive and used to highlight sections of text
  • Clear and easy to understand language
  • Meaningful text used for all links
  • No information is conveyed exclusively through the use of colour

Colour contrast
 Wherever possible we have designed pages and chosen colours to be accessible to colour-blind users. Where contrast is limited, this has been restricted to purely decorative content.

Navigation aids
A sitemap is provided to assist with navigation. All pages across the site also include a link to the homepage, and have a consistent global navigation.

Document downloads
There are a number of PDF documents available for download across the site. You can find out more about how to configure the free Adobe Reader software to obtain greater access to PDF files by visiting the Adobe site.