Accessibility

In keeping with its public-service remit, and its obligations under the DDA, the Motorsport Academy will ensure that its media is accessible to people who have visual, hearing, motor or cognitive impairments.

Accessibility is a partnership between site producers like the Motorsport Academy and the creators of the operating system, browser, and specialist assistive technologies which many disabled users employ to allow them, for example, to view websites in easier-to-read colours, with larger fonts, or as spoken text.

As such technologies have become more available and sophisticated, the Motorsport Academy will:

• ensure that its media work well with these assistive technologies to ensure an accessible experience for disabled users

The Motorsport Academy will also work with those in the wider accessibility community to support the future development of these technologies and the standards that allow all websites to be created to work best with them.

In those instances where the specific accessibility needs of some disabled user groups require us to create new or repurposed editorial content, we will do this, wherever appropriate, so that we become more inclusive to a wider audience online.

motorsportacademy.org Accessibility Standards

All motorsportacademy.org. sites must comply with a growing body of Accessibility Standards across commissioning, editorial, design & coding. As such Publishers must be responsive to any and all comments relating to problems accessing the content of their pages.

Text

Body text should be specified using the following font-family definition:
arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif

Block letter underlines should not be used.

Clarity

Ensure content on your pages is clear, succinct and scanable.

Links

Text used within links should be comprehensible within the general context of the page they are on, without relying on any more specific context provided by any immediately surrounding content. For instance, text such as “click here” or “more information” is not acceptable.

Make text links descriptive so that they can be understood when taken out of context e.g.:
'See Car details for more information ' not ' Click here for more information'

Where a mailto link is used, the email address being referenced should appear either as the text for the link, or immediately preceding or following the link.

Colour

Colour should not be used exclusively to convey any information necessary to the comprehension or navigation of content.