Accessibility
The Institution of Engineering and Technology is committed to ensuring that the content on this website is accessible to the widest range of visitors, regardless of disability.
Our website has been designed to conform to Level AA of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, complying with all Priority 1, 2 and many Priority 3 checkpoints as defined in the Guidelines.
Access keys
Access keys are keyboard shortcuts that provide quick links to common website features, without the need to use a mouse.
To navigate with access keys:
- Windows (Internet Explorer)
Hold down the 'Alt' key and the access key, followed by the 'Enter' key. - Windows (Mozilla Firefox)
Hold down the 'Alt' and 'Shift' keys, followed by the access key. - Windows (Opera)
Hold down the 'Shift' key and press 'Escape', release both keys, then press the access key. - Macintosh
Hold down the 'Ctrl' key and the access key.
Please note: Access keys are only supported by Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 and above and Netscape 6 and above.
The pages on this website comply with the recommended UK Government access keys standard.:
S - Skip navigation
1 - Home page
4 - Search (where applicable)
7 - About us (where applicable)
8 - Copyright and disclaimer (where applicable)
9 - Contact us
0 - Accessibility statement
Images
All content images on this site are provided with descriptive ALT attributes.
Text
Content and navigation text has been designed to be easily resized for ease of reading. This can be changed within your browser, usually from within the ‘View’ menu.
Navigation
All pages contain a link to the home page (access key 1) and search box (access key 4).
Skip navigation (access key S) is available to users of screen readers and speech browsers, to bypass repeated page elements - such as the top and side navigation links - and jump directly to the page content.
The navigation system has been constructed in a consistent fashion to provide clear navigation pathways throughout the site.
PDFs
All PDFs used on the website are clearly labelled and also state the download size.
If you would like to use a screen reader to read PDF documents you can find out more at the Adobe Access website.
Adobe also offers a free online tool for converting PDFs to HTML, which some people may find useful.
