Accessibility Statement
You can adapt the website to meet your needs. The settings you create on this site will be applied across all pages except the forum.
Choosing a scheme
Choose one of the options to the colour scheme or go back to the standard colour setting. This menu is available on every page of the website.
The following colour scheme are available:
Regular size text, full graphics
Large size text on plain white
We would love to hear your suggestions and requirements so please do not hesitate to get in touch if you require this website in another format.
Access keys
Keyboard shortcuts are intended to help users who have difficulty in using pointing devices such as a mouse.
The following information lists each of the keyboard shortcut commands available to users of the website and, where possible, follows the UK Government accesskeys standard.
Access key 0 - Home page
Access key 1 – Meet the team
Access key 2 – Know your rights
Access key 3 – Campaigns
Access key 4 – Message Board
Access key 5 – Contact
Press the Alt key in combination with the relevant access key:
If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5 or 6 press Alt and the relevant number/letter, then press the Enter key
If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer version 4 then press Alt and the relevant number/letter at the same time
If you are using Netscape version 6 or later, or Mozilla, then press Alt and the relevant number/letter at the same time
Unfortunately, access keys are not supported by Netscape 4 and Opera 6.
Macintosh users
Macintosh users should press the Ctrl key in combination with the relevant access key.
Under Mac OS 9, access keys are not supported by Internet Explorer 4, Internet Explorer 4.5, Mozilla, Netscape 4 and Opera5.
Under Mac OS X 10, access keys are not supported by Mozilla, OmniWeb 4, and Safari.
Other considerations
All pages use well-structured semantic markup. For example, h1 tags are used for main titles and then h2, h3 and h4 are used for subtitles. Jaws users may skip between headers using ALT+INSERT+1, ALT+INSERT+2, etc.
Pages on this site comply with the priority 1 and 2 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Initiative. Where possible attempts have also been made to comply with priority 3 guidelines.
This site is designed to validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict and use CSS to control visual layout. Content remains accessible even if your browser does not support CSS.
This site uses relative font sizes only, compatible with the user-specified “text size” option in visual browsers. Website feedback.
Let us know what you think of the Powerful Voices Network website. We want to hear from you if you have specific difficulties using the site.