Accessibility Statement

Standards compliance

This website endeavours to conform to level AA of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0.

These guidelines explain how to make web content more accessible for people with disabilities. Conformance with these guidelines will help make the web more user friendly for all people.

This site has been built using code compliant with W3C standards for HTML and CSS. The site displays correctly in current browsers and using standards-compliant HTML/CSS code means any future browsers will also display it correctly.

The web pages on this site meet the following standards:

• The pages are WCAG AA approved, complying with all priority 1 and 2 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
• The pages comply with most priority 3 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
• The pages use structured semantic markup. H1 tags are used for page titles, and H2 tags for section headings within a page.
• The pages validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict. 

Document formats

Whilst the NTMA strives to adhere to the accepted guidelines and standards for accessibility and usability, it is not always possible to do so in all areas of the website.

Where possible, information on this site is provided in HTML format. However, some classes of older documents are available in PDF format only, and the documents are not formatted in an accessible way.

Please contact the NTMA if you require any document that is not available in a format accessible to you.

Visual design

This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.

All font sizes are relative, and can be increased using the user-specified “text size” option in visual browsers.

If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.

Metadata

Each page contains meta-data compliant with the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, according to the Irish Public Sector Metadata Standard (IPSMS) profile.