Dukes Productions

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We've tried to make this website as user friendly and accessible as possible. If you experience any problems using this site or notice something that could be improved, please email us at access@scratchwebdesign.com.

This website does not rely on the use of a mouse to navigate and is designed to be operable using a keyboard, switching device, joystick or gesture-recognition device. A logical tab order is used to step through the links on each page using TAB to move down through the links on each page and Shift TAB to move back up through the links on each page.

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We've tired to make links descriptive or written so as to make contextual sense, so all links should describe their purpose reasonably well, however where additional information about the link might be useful, we have used 'title' attributes which describe the link in greater detail. This additional information is visible when the mouse cursor is held over the link. Users of assistive technology may also set screen reader options to take advantage of this feature.

For users using text-only browsers or browsers with images disabled all non-decorative images used in this website include a descriptive 'alt' attribute to provide a short text alternative to the image. More complex images requiring a more detailed description or a text alternative have a 'longdesc' attribute, and for browsers or assitive technologies that don't support 'longdesc' a 'D-Link' is provided. The 'D-Link' is identified by [D] and is adjacent to the image. This link provides additional descriptive information about the image. Any images that are decorative and are not critical to site content have a null 'alt' attribute and should not add to screen reader "noise pollution".

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JavaScript and Flash

This website uses JavaScript and Flash. We have tried to make the website independent of both these technologies all content can be accessed without JavaScript, however some content may not be accessible if Flash is not available on your browser. For more information see the Accessibility Statement at the end of this page.

If you wish to install or update Flash, go to the Adobe's Flash download page. The Flash player can be installed automatically. For information about how to enable JavaScript, please select your browser from the following options:

Firefox

  1. Keyboard shortcut ALT T O N ENTER
  2. Or using a mouse: from the main menu select Tools then Options.
  3. Select Content tab from the top row of options.
  4. Tick Enable JavaScript box.
  5. Note: You may wish to install the NoScript extension for Firefox to control which sites can run JavaScript.

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Internet Explorer

  1. Using mouse or keyboard: from the main menu select Tools then Options.
  2. Change to the Security tab at the top of the Internet Options window that pops up.
  3. From the list of Zones at the top of the Security options select the Internet icon.
  4. Select the button near the bottom that reads Custom Level.
  5. In the new window that pops up, scroll down to the item that reads Active Scripting.
  6. Select the option marked Enable.

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Safari

  1. Using mouse or keyboard: from the main menu select Edit then Preferences.
  2. Select Security tab from the top row of options.
  3. Tick Enable JavaScript box.

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Opera

  1. Using mouse or keyboard: from the main menu select Tools then Preferences.
  2. Select Advanced tab from the top row of options.
  3. Select Content from the left column of options.
  4. Tick Enable JavaScript box.

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How To Resize Text Size

If you have difficulty with the text you can increase the default text size for your browser. Select your browser from the following options for instructions:

Firefox

  1. To increase text hold down CTRL key and press +
  2. To decrease text hold down CTRL key and press -
  3. Or using a mouse: from the main menu select View, select Text then selct Increase or Decrease.

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Internet Explorer

  1. For Internet Explorer 6: click View then Text and selct required text size
  2. For Internet Explorer 7: From the menu bar underneath the search field, select Page and point to Text size

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Safari (Windows)

  1. To increase text hold down CTRL key and press +
  2. Or using a mouse: from the main menu select View, select Make Text Bigger
  3. To decrease text hold down CTRL key and press -
  4. Or using a mouse: from the main menu select View, select Make Text Smaller

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Safari (Mac)

  1. To increase text hold down Command key and press +
  2. Or using a mouse: from the main menu select View, select Make Text Bigger
  3. To decrease text hold down Command key and press -
  4. Or using a mouse: from the main menu select View, select Make Text Smaller

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Opera

  1. Using mouse or keyboard: from the main menu select View then Zoom and select required zoom level.

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Technical

This website was designed to meet standards and recommendations developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (WCAG 1.0) Conformance, 20 May, 2008


Current Status

We are continually working to improve this website and to to further improve its' conformance to WCAG 1.0. Our goal is to make this website as accessible as possible to as many people as possible and to ensure a better experience for all users, including those with visual impairments or other disabilities. WCAG 1.0 is also the basis for the Irish National Disability Authority Guidelines for Web Accessibility. The current level of conformance is outlined below, with exceptions as noted at the end of this statement.

This website conforms to W3C WCAG 1.0 Conformance Level Double-A. The baseline for this claim is HTML 4.01 and the specification that this content relies upon is HTML 4.01 (strict).

Some of the content used on this website requires Flash and is not be available on browsers without Flash. This content consists of audio samples. This website also uses, but does not rely upon the following specifications and technologies: CSS Level 2 Revision 1, GIF, JPEG and JavaScript. The content is still accessible if any or all of these are disabled.

This website was tested for cross platform and and cross browser compatability and accessibility using the following user agents and assistive technologies: Firefox 2 (Windows, Mac), IE6, IE7, IE8, Opera 9 (Windows), Safari 3.1 (Windows, Mac), JAWS 9, Window-Eyes 6.1 and IBM alphaWorks aDesigner 2.0.

Exceptions
  • Audio content used on this website requires Flash and is not be available on browsers without Flash.
  • This page 'help.html' does not comply with WCAG Rule: 13.1.P2 - 'All Anchor elements are required not to use the same link text to refer to different resources'. The same link text (the browser name) is used in different subsections of this page to provide skip-links to relevent help information for that browser within that subsection. This should not however present an accessibility issue.

If you have any useability or access problems with this website please let us know by emailing access@scratchwebdesign.com and mention the name of the website in the subject line. Comments or suggestions are always welcome.

W3C Recommendations

This website complies with W3C recommendations HTML 4.01 strict and CSS 2.1 or CSS 3.

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