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The Architects Benevolent Society are committed to making their website, and the experience of using their website, as accessible as possible.
ABS’s commitment to website accessibility
Our aim that everyone should be able to us use our website, no matter what your impairments and which technologies you use. To that end, the website and been designed and coded taking best practice web accessibility guidelines into account.
How accessible is our website?
We know some parts of this website are not fully accessible:
- not all media will have a transcript or be subtitled
- some text may not reflow in a single column when you change the size of the browser window and at certain levels of magnification
- some older PDF documents are not fully accessible to screen reader software
The ABS website supports the latest versions of the following browsers:
- Windows: Chrome, Firefox and Edge
- Mac OS X: Chrome, Firefox and Safari
- iOS: Safari and Chrome
- Android: Chrome
The following browsers are now out of date:
- Internet Explorer 11
- Safari 9
- Opera 34
If you are using the ABS website on an out of date browser, we recommend that you upgrade to the latest version or switch to a different browser like Chrome for a better experience.
All of the videos on the website are hosted on Youtube and embedded in the web page. By clicking on the video link you can add captions to the video natively in YouTube.
When links are added in text, we make sure that the link text clearly describes the destination of that link, so that you end up exactly where you expected.
The website has been designed to meet the WCAG 2.0 recommended colour contrast ratios, making the website easier to use and the text easier to read.
If you would like to change the colour of the background or text then you can do this
ReciteMe Tool Bar
We also provide assistive technology, enabling all websites visitors to customise their experience through a range of option to suit their online accessibility and language needs.
The Recite Me toolbar provides text to speech functionality, fully customisable styling features, reading aids and a translation tool with over 100 languages, including 35 text to speech voices and many other features.
Just click ‘accessibility’ in the blue button at the top of every page to open the tool bar.
Contact us if you have problems using our website
We are always looking to improve the accessibility of our website, so if you find anything on the site difficult to use please contact us.