Accessibility
This website is built on the Spanglefish content management system, which allows site owners to manage almost all aspects of their site. The content should be accessible through your web browser of choice and present legibly on a monitor, laptop, tablet or other mobile device (landscape as well as portrait); it allows normal browser control over zooming and using key strokes. The website should be fully accessible using screen readers.
Accessibility Statement
We want as many people as possible to be able to use the Wollaton Historical & Conservation Society website.
These are our guiding principles in our design:
- Text will be written in as simple a way as possible whilst still conveying the correct meaning.
- Uploaded and linked documents on the site, such as PDFs, will be created in an accessible way.
- Images when presented singly shall be centralised to better support desktop viewing.
- Images should have alternative descriptions which allow screen readers to explain what the image holds.
- Click here options for links will be avoided, with links making it clear where they point to through clarity of wording.
- Good levels of contrast will be used between text and background colours:
- Black font will be used in the main (against a white or neutral background) and typically use dark blue headings to help locate content.
- Red fonts will be used by exception only, as they are not considered accessible, especially when used against a light background.
- Main areas of text will be left aligned versus justified. (Justification leads to "rivers of white space" that disrupt reading.)
- A full stop will be followed by 1 space versus 2 spaces (as this is the modern electronic protocol).
- Uppercase for entire words will be avoided.
- Bold font will be minimised (as its nature is not conveyed to screen readers).
- Italic font will be minimised and typically be reserved for titles of books or publications in body text.
- Quotations of direct speech (or journal article titles or presentations) will be contained in double quotation marks (as this is now considered more univeral).
While this is not a website style guide, the following conventions are being used as they align with maximising accessibility:
- Time: either 2.00pm or 14:00, and if written as a time range, then it will be 2.00pm to 5.00pm or 14:00 to 17:00 (no hyphen)
- Date: Sunday 15 June 2025, or if the day is not referenced, then it will be 15 June 2025 (no commas or th are used)
- Decade: 1940s not 1940's (no apostrophe)
- Century: 16th century (no superscript)
- Span of years: 1974-1978 (no spaces)
- Circa date: c.1981 (no space and no date range)
- Bullet points: full stops only if each statement reads as a sentence
- Quotation marks: full stop outside the quotation mark if the quote is a phrase or part of a sentence (else placed inside) - British English
For any comments on this website's accessibility, please let us know using our Contact form.