The Dorset History Centre shop has been designed to be accessible to as many people as possible. If you have any difficulty using it please let us know and we will do our best to rectify it.

1. All pages comply with all priority 1, 2, and 3 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (opens in new window).
2. All pages validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional (opens in new window).
3. It is built using structured semantic markup. H2 tags are used for main titles to aid users of screen reading software such as JAWS (opens in new window).
   

Navigation aids

1. All pages have been authored to include Link Relationships to aid navigation in text-only browsers such as Lynx (opens in new window) and graphical browsers that support this feature
2. This site has been coded to ensure a logical tab order through links and form elements. Keyboard navigation is possible via the TAB KEY on your keyboard. Alternatively Opera users can use the A KEY to navigate links and the TAB KEY to navigate form elements
3. A Skip Navigation link has been provided to allow users of text-only browsers and screen readers to bypass the site navigation to quickly access its content

Visual design

1. Cascading Style Sheets (opens in new window) (CSS) are used to control visual layout
   
2. This site uses only relative font sizes. To display text larger or smaller go to the 'View' menu in your browser, point to Text Size, and then click the size you want (this may differ depending on browser vendor)
3. If your browser or browsing device does not support Cascading Style Sheets, the content of this site will still be readable and usable