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EssentialSkillz website, http://www.essentialskillz.com, is intended to be as accessible as possible to all users.

This site is designed to conform to relevant technical standards and to avoid placing barriers in the way of access. In general, the site complies with Level A (Priority 1) accessibility standards of the WAI Guidelines. EssentialSkillz is committed to achieving an even higher level of accessibility.

EssentialSkillz top selling solution, online DSE (Display Screen Equipment) training and risk assessment software and Workstation assessible courseware version complies with Level AAA (Priority 3 - highest level) of the WAI Guidelines.

For details of the WAI Guidelines on the World Wide Web Consortium site, please follow the link; http://www.w3.org/WAI/

Some General Access Hints
Every HTML page in the site is designed to have a common general layout as follows:

  • Site logo (linked back to site home page)
  • Site navigation bar
  • Site Search Form (via Google)
  • Table of contents for page. This is present only on relatively long pages
  • Main page content
  • Generic "page administration" links (e.g., to the site copyright policy)

Product Accessibility

Training Courses
In general EssentialSkillz training courses, course tasters and screensavers all require Flash to be viewed. However the training courseware is also available in HTML, subject to demand. EssentialSkillz Workstation Essentials training course complies with Level AAA (Priority 3 - highest level) accessibility standards of the WAI Guidelines and is available to purchase off-the-shelf.

Risk Assessments
EssentialSkillz Risk Assessments comply with Level AAA (Priority 3 - highest level) accessibility standards of the WAI Guidelines and are available to purchase off-the-shelf.

O-LAS
EssentialSkillz Learner Management System, O-LAS, complies with LEVEL A (Priority 1) accessibility standards of the WAI Guidelines.

User Technology Requirements
The site is designed to impose minimal requirements on user technology. It will work best through a modern browser that supports the HTML 4 (W3C, 1999b) and CSS (W3C, 1999a,1998) standards; however, all content should still be accessible even in older browsers.

The site does provide some resources in PDF format. This is primarily intended to support printing of good quality hardcopy for those users who want that. However, in all such cases, the content is also available in HTML. If you do want to use the PDF format resources you will require compatible viewing software, such as Acrobat Reader or xpdf. The PDF format generally contains the same text as the corresponding HTML resource. However, URLs for external hyperlinks are generally exposed via additional footnotes. This incidentally means that the numbering of footnotes will generally be different between the HTML and PDF versions.

Not what it says on the tin?
If you believe we have not satisfied our accessibility policy in any way, or experience any difficulty in the accessibility or general usability of the site (whether related to disability or not), then we would greatly appreciate hearing from you!

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