Privacy Statement

William Fry is committed to providing information and services that are fully accessible to all. The site is designed in accordance with the W3C WAI Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and conforms to most priority 1 and 2 checkpoints. A list of outstanding issues is set out below.


All new content published to the site is published in accessible HTML.


All pages on this site comply with most priority 1 and 2 guidelines of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Some priority 3 standards have also been achieved.


This site contains many features to help users with disabilities navigate easily. These features are described below.

This website is designed for maximum accessibility. Frames are not used, tables are only used for tabulating data and images are kept to a minimum and always described in alt text.


Standards Compliance


This site is WCAG Double A approved, complying with most priority 1 and 2 guidelines of the W3 Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. The site uses structured semantic mark-up where possible. For example, internal content pages use H1 for all top level headings and list mark-up for internal navigation where possible. Using real list mark-up is best. Since visual presentation is in the CSS declarations, it does not clutter up the page, so both JAWS and Home Page Reader simply read your list for what it is: a list.
NB: The XHTML, CSS and Double A compliance validation on this site were time-stamped as valid on the 28/08/2008. However, with a dynamic site like this validations are fragile and can destablise. If you noticed any aspect of the site that may have deteriorated it's validations from beyond this date, please take time report to us. Thank you.


General Site Features


Font/Text Sizes
This site makes use of style sheets that allow for flexible resizing of fonts to meet user requirements. If you find that font sizes are too small simply increase the default font size used in your web browser software (for example, in Internet Explorer font sizes can be changed in the View Menu under 'Text Size'). This feature may not work correctly in all web browsers.

Navigation Aids
Top level navigation is visible at all times.

Images:
All content images used in the home page and elsewhere include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics include null ALT attributes.

Visual Design:
This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout and all presentation has been completely separated from content with the exception of layout tables. If your browser or browsing device does not support style sheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.


Known issues

Pages are designed to validate as DTD HTML 4.01 Strict. There are a number of remaining validation errors, but work is ongoing to fix these.

Maintaining accessibility

William Fry is committed to maintaining and monitoring the accessibility of this website.

Some of our guidelines cover issues such as:

  • Creating user friendly web content
  • Writing meaningful alternative text
  • Creating accessible tables
  • Creating accessible link phrases

Please let us know if you encounter any problems.