Site Accessibility

The Teacher Learning Academy strives to meet the needs of people with disabilities or other conditions which may limit or complicate website accessibility. Described below are the measures that we have taken to ensure that this site is accessible to as many people as possible.

Navigation

You can navigate this site by using the top menu to access the main audience focused areas of the site i.e. School Leaders, Teachers or Support Partners. The left-hand side menu, common to most pages, provides links to areas of general interest. Once in one of the audience focused areas, the menu in the right-hand column provides corresponding sub-navigation.
A link to the sitemap is provided at the foot of each page.

Site accessibility features

The site provides several accessibility features and facilities.

Accessibility bar

This is located at the top of each page and provides the following facilities: 

• Jump to navigation: click this link to scroll the page to the top menu skipping over the page header images.
• Jump to main content: click this link to scroll the page to the beginning of the page’s main content bypassing the page header and top menu.
• Accessibility: click this link to view the accessibility page.

Text size

Text size may be adjusted via these icons:

•  increases the font size.
•  increase the font size further.
•  restores the default font size.

Page width

Page width may be adjusted via these icons:

•  decreases the width of the main content column.
•  expands the width of the main content column so that the page fills the browser window.
•  restores the default width.

Page contrast

• provides a high contrast version of the site. Click the icon again to revert to the normal contrast settings.

NB Font sizing, page width and contrast settings may be used in combination and will remain set for the duration of your visit to this site.

Keyboard only access

The site has been carefully designed to ensure that it is navigable using only a keyboard. All hyperlinks within the content and menus can be accessed via the Tab key of your keyboard. Use the Enter (Carriage Return key) to follow the selected link.

Links selected using the Tab key will be highlighted in yellow e.g. Resources.

To ensure that all navigation is accessible via your keyboard, the site does not use drop-down or fly-out menus.

Images and media

All images, videos and flash graphics are provided with a text-based alternative.

Flash animation

Some pages may contain Flash animations or presentations. If you wish to view a flash animation but you do not have a flash player, the latest player can be downloaded from www.adobe.com.

PDF documents

Downloadable documents on this site may be published in Portable Document Format (PDF). You’ll need to have Acrobat Reader installed on your computer to read these documents. This is available free of charge from the Adobe website. Click on the icon below to download Acrobat Reader.

Using your browser controls

The site has been designed to allow your browser's accessibility features to operate. Via your browser's own controls you may be able to change the font size, change the font style, and disable image download for faster access. Instructions for common browsers are provided below.

Internet Explorer

Font size: Go to ’view’, select ’text size’ and choose the font size.

Font style: Go to ’tools’, then ’internet options’, select ’accessibility’ and click on ’ignore font style specified on web pages’. Click ok.

Disable images: Go to ’tools’, then ’internet options’, select ’advanced’, look for multimedia and untick ’show pictures’. Click ok. 

Mozilla Firefox

Font size: Firefox 2: Go to ’view’, select ’text size’ and choose the font size. Firefox 3: Go to ’view’, select ’Zoom’ and choose ‘Zoom In’ or ‘Zoom Out’.

Font style: Go to ’tools’, then ’options’, select ’content’ and in ‘fonts & colours’, change as desired. Click ok.

Disable images: Go to ’tools’, then ’options’, untick ’load images’. Click ok.

Netscape

Font size: Go to ’view’, select ’text zoom’ and choose the font size.

Font style: Go to ’edit’, then ’preferences’, select ’appearance’ and click on ’fonts’ and change as desired. Click ok.

Disable images: Go to ’file’, then ’preferences’, select ’multimedia’. On the drop down menu select ’show no images’. Click ok.