Making our site accessible is important to us. The Affinity Water website has been designed with accessibility in mind. As far as is possible, we try to ensure that it operates across multiple platforms and browsers and is accessible to everyone who wants to use it.
We have a 'ReciteMe' control to the left of the screen which allows you to adapt our website to suit your needs.
Links
- Wherever possible, links are written to make sense out of context. Many browsers (such as JAWS, Home Page Reader, Lynx, and Opera) can extract the list of links on a page and allow the user to browse the list, separately from the page.
- Link text is never duplicated; two links with the same link text always point to the same address.
- Wherever possible there are no internal site links that open new windows without warning. Offsite links and links to PDF documents will open in a new TAB.
Images
This website utilises two distinct image types;
- Content images used include descriptive ALT attributes.
- Decorative images include short ALT attributes.
Accessibility software
- JAWS - a screen reader for Windows.
- Lynx - a free text-only web browser for blind users with refreshable Braille displays.
- Links - a free text-only web browser for visual users with low bandwidth
- Opera - a visual browser with many accessibility-related features, including text zooming, user stylesheets, image toggle. A free downloadable version is available. Compatible with Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and several other operating systems.
Accessibility services
- W3C HTML Validator - a free service for checking that web pages conform to published HTML standards.
- Lynx Viewer - a free service for viewing what your web pages would look like in Lynx.
- InterpretersLive! - British Sign Language users can contact us using a British Sign Language video interpreter, via the InterpretersLive! service, provided by Sign Solutions.
If you are experiencing any problems or would like any of the information in large print, braille or audio, please call us on 0345 357 2406 or visit our priority services page.
MyAccount
Our online portal MyAccount features:
- Lefthand side navigation
- Full navigation is displayed when viewing the site on a desktop
- Default font size set to 16
- A Dark mode option