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•  Internal and External Links
•  Accessibility Issues
•  How we handle accessibility and more
•  W3C Validation

A web site URL may become dysfunctional for many reasons including but not restricted to the following:

•  The server hosting the page or web site may be permanently or temporarily unavailable.

•  A page or web site may be moved to a new server (this can be a common occurrence) and will contain precisely the same content but will be inaccessible using the old URL.

•  Periodic checks on a two weekly basis (or more frequently as considered required) are carried out on our internal and external web site links by using Web Link Validation software.

Countless blind, partially sighted and physically impaired persons around the world are now using the Internet to find information and use services that were previously unavailable to them such as online banking, gaining news, shopping etc from the comfort of their homes.

•  Read further information on web page accessibility at  W3C Introduction to Web Accessibility

The most basic home computer can be equipped with synthesized speech output or braille display technology to enable people to use the Internet either through sound or by touch and this technology has the potential to revolutionize the lives of visually impaired persons who, until now have been forced to rely on other people for information.

This technology relies on good web site development practices and will only work properly if web sites adhere to certain standards. Physically impaired persons find many web sites unusable because they fall below an acceptable standard such as those defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C.)

The W3C is an international industry consortium that develops many of the standard languages used by Web page designers and Web application programmers and they define the Web as “the universe of network-accessible information (available through your computer, phone, television or networked refrigerator . . .” Today this universe benefits society by enabling new forms of human communication and opportunities to share knowledge. One of W3C's primary goals is to make these benefits available to all people, whatever their hardware, software, network infrastructure, native language, culture, geographical location, or physical or mental ability. W3C's Internationalization Activity, Mobile Activity, TV Web Activity, Voice Browser Activity and Web Accessibility Initiative all illustrate our commitment to universal access.  Source: W3C - in 7 points.

O.N.Z.C.D.A™ has taken steps to ensure that the pages on this web site are at least minimally accessible to people with disAbilities who use assistive technology to access the Internet. We follow the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 1.0 which are standards created by the World Wide Web Consortiums Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI.)

Pages are periodically tested using assistive technology Lynx simulation and the browsers Opera, Fire Fox, Safari, SeaMonkey and MS IE 8 are used at various screen resolutions.

We continue to assess the web site for accessibility issues and welcome your comments or feedback. If you are having a problem accessing any part of the web site please notify us of the problem using our Contact Form.

WDG, W3C and WAVE are all used on our web pages both online and offline to measure accessibility standards. Due to the judgment calls on manual checks differences in the testing software online and locally online validations may vary.

WAVE is used to aid humans in the web accessibility evaluation process. Rather than providing a complex technical report, WAVE shows the original web page with embedded icons and indicators that reveal the accessibility information within web pages.