Accessibility Statement

Jack Kiernan and Sons are committed to ensuring that our website is accessible and inclusive to all users. As a result, this website has been designed with careful consideration given to accessibility guidelines laid down by the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). If you have any questions or comments, feel free to email us at jack.kiernan@navanshoppingcentre.ie.

Access keys

Most browsers support jumping to specific links by typing keys defined on the website. On Windows, you can press ALT+ an access key; on Macintosh, you can press Control+ an access key.

All pages on this site define the following access keys:

Standards compliance

  1. All pages on this site are Bobby AAA approved, complying with all the Bobby guidelines. The pages on this website have been reviewed for compliance with all of these guidelines.
  2. All pages on this site is WCAG AAA approved, complying wih all priority 1, 2, and 3 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. The pages on this website have been review for compliance with all of these guidlines.
  3. All pages on this site validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict. For example, check the home page for XHTML validity.
  4. All pages on this site use structured semantic markup. H3 tags are used for main titles, H4 tags for subtitles. For example, on this page, users of the JAWS screen reader can skip to the next section within this accessibility statement by pressing ALT+INSERT+3.

Links

  1. All links have title attributes which describe the link in greater detail, unless the text of the link already fully describes the target.
  2. Links are written to make sense out of context.

Images

  1. All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics include null ALT attributes.
  2. Complex images include LONGDESC attributes or inline descriptions to explain the significance of each image to non-visual readers.

Visual design

  1. This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.
  2. This site uses only relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified "text size" option in visual browsers.
  3. If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.

Accessibility software

  1. JAWS, a screen reader for Windows. A time-limited, downloadable demo is available.
  2. Home Page Reader, a screen reader for Windows. A downloadable demo is available.
  3. Lynx, a free text-only web browser for blind users with refreshable Braille displays.
  4. Links, a free text-only web browser for visual users with low bandwidth.
  5. 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.