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Accessibility

Accessibility Statement

Southwest One is committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of ability or technology and including those who have visual, hearing, motor and cognitive impairments. We are actively working to reach and maintain conformance level AA from the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). Every effort is being made to ensure that we achieve the WAI Level AA (Priority 2) accessibility throughout the website.

If you do find any accessibility barriers that affect or prevent your use and enjoyment of the site, please let us know by using the online form on our Contact Us page.

This website endeavours to conform to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). The Accessibility Guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with disabilities. Conformance to these guidelines helps to make the web more accessible to users with disabilities and benefits all users.

Document Viewing Help

This website uses PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format for documents that can be downloaded. To read these documents, you will need software called Acrobat Reader. This software is freely available, and you can download a copy from the Adobe Acrobat website (http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html).

The current version of Adobe Acrobat (Acrobat Reader 8) has a number of accessibility features. If you have an older version, you can upgrade by downloading the new version from the Adobe Acrobat website.

All links to downloadable documents on this website include the file size. This helps users to get an idea of how long it will take to download the document. Please note that links to PDFs hosted on the Southwest One website will open a new browser window.

Navigation And Access Keys

This site has been designed to allow easy navigation using either the mouse or the keyboard. To navigate using the keyboard use the Tab key to move forwards through links or Shift + Tab to move backwards through links and the Return key to activate a link. Pressing the Backspace key will take you back one page.

Access keys are used to provide keyboard shortcuts as an alternative form of navigation around the website. Usage of access keys differs according to browser:

The access keys set up for this website are:


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