Accessibility is a priority for David McGuinty, M.P.
Our goal is to ensure the accessibility of this site; if some content or services found here are inaccessible to you, please contact our office.
Accessibility at DavidMcGuinty.com
The Office of David McGuinty, MP is committed to ensuring that David’s website is accessible to the widest possible range of visitors.
People with disabilities can find certain websites hard to view correctly due to the way that they are designed. We have therefore acted accordingly to create an online presence that is as accessible as possible.
We have designed and coded the pages on DavidMcGuinty.com to comply with W3C XHTML and CSS guidelines to ensure that pages render correctly on users' browser software, including those making use of assistive technology such as screen readers.
Using this site
Text size
This site has been designed using relative font sizes – “T” icons near the top right of the page indicate larger or smaller text.
You can also use your browser to enlarge or reduce the size of text as required. In most instances, this is done in your browser's "View" menu, where you can alter the "Text Size" option to suit your needs. Most browsers also have a keyboard shortcut to carry this out.
Links
Links on this site are clearly designated and we have striven to make sure that they make sense, especially if they were taken out of context. We have avoided use of terms such as "click here" as these could potentially be misleading without an accurate description of what page or file the link points to.
Furthermore, links make use of use alternative text to describe their destination both visually, and audibly in the case of screen reader software.
Additionally, you can use your Tab key to navigate from link to link on each page.
Images
All images featured on the site have alternative descriptive text associated with them as an alt attribute.
Page structure
All pages on the site have been designed to separate "form from content" as effectively as possible using the latest W3C standards.
Page sections are marked up clearly using defined headings (h1, h2 etc.) to demarcate important content.
Some links found on this site lead to other organizations. Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee that all of these external sites are accessible to all users of assistive technologies.
Do you have any feedback or queries?
Please do not hesitate to contact us with any feedback you may have on this site - as previously mentioned, we are committed to making this site as accessible as possible and will gladly listen to your comments.