Bord na Móna is committed to making the information on this website accessible to all, regardless of ability. This statement outlines the provisions we have made to ensure a high standard of accessibility throughout this web site. Standards compliance.

1. The Bord na Móna Heartland site is WCAG A approved, complying with all priority 1 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. (http://www.w3.org/WAI/). All manual checks have been tested and verified.
2. All pages on this site comply with the Irish National Disability Authority IT Accessibility Guidelines. (http://accessit.nda.ie/)

Images

1. All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT or LONGDESC tag. Purely decorative graphics include null ALT attributes.

Visual design

1. This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.
2. This site uses only relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified "text size" option in visual browsers.

Acessibility 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. Irish National Disability Authority IT accessibility guidelines.

Accessibility software

1. JAWS, a screen reader for Windows. A time-limited, downloadable demo is available.
2. Home Page Reader, a screen reader for Windows. A downloadable demo is available.
3. Lynx, a free text-only web browser for blind users with refreshable Braille displays.
4. Links, a free text-only web browser for visual users with low bandwidth.

Requirements

The browsers recommended for optimum use of this site are as follows:

• Internet Explorer 6.0 upwards.
• Firefox 2.0 upwards.
• Safari 4.0 up