London 2012 is fully committed to ensuring that On Your Marks! is accessible and inclusive for all its users.

Web accessibility focuses on ensuring all users, regardless of their physical and mental capability, are able to access the content and services on a particular website.

On Your Marks! conforms to priority 2 W3C compliance for websites. It also conforms to coding standards for HTML, CSS and XML against the appropriate W3C standard.

The design and build of On Your Marks! has taken into account the following guidelines:

The WC3 Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) www.w3.org/
The Disability Discrimination Act (DDA, part three) - www.disability.gov.uk/dda

These guidelines include:

Allowing users to control text sizes.
Using an easy-to-read font type.
Ensuring suitable foreground and background colour contrast.
Using clear and simple grammar.
Providing meaningful text equivalents for pictures.
Providing simple and consistent site navigation.
Assigning access keys for key navigational elements.
Ensuring the target of each link is clearly defined.
Providing navigational short cuts for users of text only browsers and page readers.
Using appropriate structural mark-up to maximise browser support.
Ensuring all content and functionality is available to users without content style sheet (CSS), image and script support.

Accessibility keys for this website are as follows:

1 Home
2 About
3 Factsheets
4 In the news
5 Pictures
6 Teaching ideas
7 Switch to Welsh
8 FAQs
9 Accessibility

The On Your Marks! website offers a high quality experience to every user to ensure that assistive technologies, including screen readers and magnifiers can interact effectively with the content and that learners with differing needs can use the website.

Parents, teachers and children will use the On Your Marks! site. The following features aim to ensure that an equal experience is available to all, including:

• visually impaired learners
• hearing impaired learners
• motor impaired learners
• learners with cognitive difficulties.

Assistive technologies

On Your Marks! has been tested using the Freedom Scientific JAWS screen reader version 6.10.

Navigational elements

• Alt tags are used throughout the site.
• The site provides a logical tabbing order.
• Proprietary keyboard short cuts are not used.

Interoperability

• The site allows the user's browser to override the CSS presentation of fonts.