This is the official Accessibility Statement for the Antrec Limited website;-

www.antreclimited.com

If you have experienced a problem accessing or reading our material, please let us know and we will try to provide the information in a format that is useful to you. We would also welcome your feedback and ideas regarding the accessibility of our site.

Standards Compliance

All pages on this site are Web Content Accessibility Guidelines approved and comply with all priority 1, 2 and in most cases 3 guidelines of the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0

Many accessibility features can be measured, whilst some cannot and require human judgement. We have reviewed the guidelines and believe that we have achieved compliance.

Adobe Acrobat

You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print the PDF documents viewable on this web site. You can download Acrobat Reader free from the Adobe website.

Adobe also provides useful tools and resources on the accessibility section of the Adobe web site, if you wish to access PDF documents using a screen reader.

Adjusting the Text size

The text size used throughout the site is easily increased or decreased using your browser. A couple of examples of how to do this are listed below:

Changing your text size in Microsoft Internet Explorer:

1. Select ‘Text Size’ from the ‘View’ menu.
2. Select from the list of predefined text sizes raning from ‘Largest’ to ‘Smallest’

Changing your text size in Netscape/Mozilla:

1. Select ‘Text Size’ from the ‘View’ menu.
2. Select ‘Increase Font’ or ‘Decrease Font’ to adjust the font size accordingly.

Alternatively you can adjust your text size in many browsers by holiding down the ‘Ctrl’ key (PC) and using your mouse scroll wheel to increase or decrease your text size.

Screen Resolution

This website is best viewed with a screen resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels. For help with changing your screen resolution, consult your operating system’s online Help reference.

Tabbing

All pages have a tab index so that pressing the tab key will sequentially go through the links on the web page from top to bottom.

Technical Specification

This website has been designed to conform to W3C web standards and uses valid eXtensible Hypertext Mark-up Language (XHTML) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

Built-in accessibility options

Built-in accessibility options are available for the main smartphone operating systems including Android, Apple, Blackberry and Windows 8.1 or Windows 10. These include colour changing, magnification, text to speech, word prediction and, for Android and Apple, voice recognition.

Web-based services

Alternatively use web-based services like SensusAccess, Evernote or GoogleDrive to turn images of text into editable text that can be listened to with text to speech.

Screenreader

http://www.webbie.org.uk/ – provides a free suite of utilities designed for blind and visually impaired people to provide access to digital news sources such as RSS and radio, including a browser based in Internet Explorer which can display web page as structured text.

Text to speech

http://www.cross-plus-a.com/balabolka.htm – This fully featured text-to-speech and text to MP3 tool is free to use with pre-installed computer voices (eg the default Windows voices or other free or commercial voices).

Users can adjust the text display then read aloud and save in most popular audio formats. Files can be split into more manageable ‘chunks’. Text can be highlighted as it is read, making it suitable for supporting reading skills.

Visual assistance

https://www.atbar.org/ – ATbar is free and allows you to change the look and feel of webpages, increase and decrease font sizes, have text read aloud, use coloured overlays, readability and a dictionary to aid reading. Spell check forms and try word prediction when writing. It is a simple tool which is available for most popular browsers.

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