ACCESSIBILITY
Overview
Scottish Wedding Consultants take the issue of web accessibility seriously and have undertaken to adhere to the current WAI/W3C standards wherever possible. As a caveat, the basic business premise of Scottish Wedding Consultants is of visual design for videography and as such requires the display of live video excerpts via it's web pages. This may provide an issue for visually impaired visitors which we can only apologise for, the undertaking of large scale video demonstration downloads would be prohibitively expensive at both bandwidth and performance levels. To address this issue evenly, we are very keen to offer our services to ALL our web visitors, so should you have a need to view any of our demos in a large scale format, we will be happy to mail a CD copy of our demonstration videos to any requestors.
Links
1. Many links have title attributes which describe the link in greater detail, unless the text of the link already fully describes the target (such as the headline of an article).
2. Whenever possible, links are written to make sense out of context. Many browsers (such as JAWS, Home Page Reader, Lynx, and Opera) can extract the list of links on a page and allow the user to browse the list, separately from the page.
3. There are no links that open popup windows without warning, there is a single link to a venues page which resides on an disparate server-this page is opened using the _blank target attribute and will not be affected by popup blockers or XP SP2 patch upgrades.
Images
1. All content images used in the home page and all archives include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics include null ALT attributes or are not addressed.
Visual design
This site uses cascading style sheets and javascript DHTML menus for visual layout.
1. Internet Explorer has a limited text resizing feature ("View" menu, "Text Size"), but it only works with relative font sizes. A special stylesheet that uses relative font sizes is automatically served to visitors using Internet Explorer.
2. If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.
3. A series of generalised links are available at the foot of every page to offer an alternative to key resources
Accessibility references
1. W3 accessibility guidelines, which explains the reasons behind each guideline.
2. W3 accessibility techniques, which explains how to implement each guideline.
3. W3 accessibility checklist, a busy developer's guide to accessibility.
4. U.S. Federal Government Section 508 accessibility guidelines.
Accessibility software and services
1. Bobby, a free service to analyze web pages for compliance to accessibility guidelines.
2. HTML Validator, a free service for checking that web pages conform to published HTML standards.
3. Web Page Backward Compatibility Viewer, a tool for viewing your web pages without a variety of modern browser features.
4. JAWS, a screen reader for Windows. A time-limited demo is available.
5. Lynx, a free text-only web browser.
Privacy Policy & Disclaimer for Scottish Wedding Consultants Web Site
This policy explains what information is gathered from web clients visiting Scottish Wedding Consultants's central web server, and how that information is used.
Information Collected
Information is gathered from clients via several methods that are outlined below:
1. Logfiles
Scottish Wedding Consultants's central web server1 tracks requests made of it to centrally held log files. Log files can contain any or all of the following types of data:
* The date and time of connection
* Identification of the file(s) requested
* Whether the request was successful
* The size (in bytes) sent in response
* The referring page (where the client came from), as supplied by the client browser
* The software used to access the server, as supplied by the client browser
Information gathered is used for server system administration, identifying broken links, and for producing usage statistics. Logged information may be kept indefinitely. Log files do not contain any personal information.
Scottish Wedding Consultants also uses the following log reporting services on its web site to measure and analyse visitor information.
Examples of data collected automatically from all users include:
* the Internet protocol (IP) address;
* computer and connection information such as browser type and version, operating system, and platform;
* Uniform Resource Locator (“URL”) click stream data, including date and time, and content viewed or searched for on the Site.
2. Cookies
Cookies are small files that are sent from the web server to the client's computer via the client's browser. They are then stored in the client's computer as text files and passed back to the server. Cookies are generally used to identify users and on occasion, prepare customized Web pages for them. Cookies may remain on the client's computer merely for the duration of the session (visit) or they may remain indefinitely. Most standard web browsers may be configured to refuse cookies.
Scottish Wedding Consultants does not use cookies extensively on its servers at present. Such cookies that are used, other than in specific projects as outlined in section 5 below, do not contain any personal information and cannot be used to identify an individual user.
3. Web forms
Forms on Scottish Wedding Consultants web site may request clients to supply personal details in order to receive goods or services. Where appropriate, such forms operate over secure connections so that data is safeguarded.
By supplying such information the client consents to SWC storing the information for period of time appropriate to the supply of the goods or services requested. Personal information provided will only be used for the purpose stated and will not be sold, licensed or traded to third parties.
Personal information collected and/or processed by SWC is held in accordance with the provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998.
4. Discussion fora, chat rooms, conferencing facilities, bulletin boards and mailing lists
Tools for synchronous and asynchronous web based communication that are hosted on Scottish Wedding Consultants web site may request clients to supply details such as names and email addresses for registration purposes.
By supplying such information the client consents to SWC storing the information in a manner appropriate for administration of the tool. Information provided will only be used for the purpose stated and will not be sold, licensed or traded to third parties.
If you supply information via these forms, we may use your contact details to send you further information about our organisation or to contact you when necessary. You may opt-out of such mailings at any time, or you may choose to receive only specific communications.
Personal information collected and/or processed by SWC is held in accordance with the provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998.
Disclaimer
Scottish Wedding Consultants takes reasonable efforts to ensure that the contents of its website(s) are accurate; however, it cannot give any warranty that this is the case. SWC may change web content at any time without notice.
Scottish Wedding Consultants website includes links to third party websites. These links are used to provide further information and are not intended as an endorsement of such websites and/or their content.
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