Accessibility Statement

We are mindful of the need to make our pages accessible to everyone, and we describe below some of the steps we have taken to ensure that this is the case. Almost all of the publicly accessed pages on the Haycock Hotel website will conform to at least the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Single A standard excluding all forms on the site. There may still remain some pages in the Haycock Hotel web site that for technical reasons we cannot make conform to W3C standard, however we will be working in the future to overcome this, and make all our pages conform.

Current Standards Compliance

The majority of pages on this site comply with all Priority 1 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and Bobby.
All the pages in this web site have been written to comply with the W3C XHTML 1.0 Strict Standard - the most demanding, and so almost all of our pages should be accessible using text only browsers or other reading devices. All the style sheets used to control layout and presentation of the pages on this site validate to the W3C CSS standard.

Text Only Content

At the lower left of every page, is a "Text Only" link. Clicking on this link will present a text-only version of the page using high visibility text sizes and background colours.

Text Size

If you need to change the size of the text on the page, most internet browsers will allow users to change the font size. However when changing your browser settings, keep this information in mind:

Bigger text means less information on the screen at any one time and more scrolling. You may need to click on the 'Refresh' or 'Reload' button for changes to take effect. We give you the following tips on how to change the text size settings of the following commonly used browsers:

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 and 6
  1. From the menu bar at the top, pull down the 'View' menu.
  2. Select 'Text Size'.
  3. There are five choices, ranging from the smallest to the largest.
  4. Choose a font size from the options listed.
  5. Click on the new font style.
  6. Some experimentation is necessary.
Microsoft Internet Explorer 4
  1. From the menu bar at the top, pull down the 'View' menu.
  2. Select 'Internet Options'.
  3. Click on the 'Font' button that is near the bottom.
  4. Use the pull-down 'Font Size' menu to select a new size. There are five choices, ranging from smallest to largest.
  5. Use the pull-down 'Proportional Font' menu to select a new font style.
  6. When you've made your selection, click on the 'OK' button.
  7. Some experimentation is necessary.
Netscape Navigator 6
  1. From the menu bar at the top, pull down the 'Edit' menu.
  2. Select 'Preferences'.
  3. Click on 'Appearances then select 'Fonts'.
  4. Choose a font size from the options listed.
  5. Click on the desired font size from the pull-down menu.
  6. Click 'OK'.
Links

Links have TITLE attributes that describe the link in greater detail, even when the text of the link already fully describes the target.

Images

All content images will include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics will have an empty ALT attribute.

Layout

This site uses cascading style sheets to control layout and appearance. Public areas of this site use only relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified 'text size' option in visual browsers. If your browser does not support stylesheets the content of each page is still readable.

Documents

Some of the documents in this site are PDFs and require Adobe Acrobat Reader to view, which is available as a free Download. You will require version 3.0 or above of Adobe Acrobat Reader in order to view these files. If you do not have this software click on the "Get Acrobat Reader" link below to download.

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Playing Flash Files

The graphics version of the web site uses Adobe Flash to enhance the visitors experience by displaying a slideshow of images i8n the right hand panel. All the information in the web site can be accessed without using Flash, although the appearance of the web site is improved. If you need the latest version of Flash, you can download it free, using the link below.

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