Car Supermarket Directory

Accessibility Statement

This is the accessibility statement for Auto Trader Car Supermarket Directory If you have any questions or comments, feel free to e-mail Customer Services at NLWcar.supermarket@tradermedia.co.uk

Access keys

Auto Trader does not currently support Access keys, although this will be implemented in the future when we support full WCAG AAA guidelines and are Bobby AAA approved.

Browser text-sizing tool

Most popular browsers feature a text resizing tool in the toolbar.

With this tool you can resize text on screen to a level you feel comfortable with. Just click on the icon, and select a new size.

This tool is also available in the menu of various browsers as follows:

• Internet Explorer 5, 5.5, 6, 7 (PC): View > Text Size
• Firefox, Netscape 8: View > Text Size
• Opera: View > Zoom
• Netscape 6, 7, Mozilla: View > Text Zoom
• Safari (Mac): View > Make Text Bigger
• Internet Explorer 5 (Mac): View > Text Zoom

Tab key

You can use the Tab key on your keyboard to move between links on a page. A single press of Tab highlights the next link, Shift+Tab highlights the previous link.

Navigation aids

The tips are cross-referenced in several ways. You can browse the tips by person, by disability, by design principle, by assistive technology�and by publishing tool.

The homepage and all other channel pages include a quick search box. Advanced search options are available on the advanced search pages for each vehicle search and channel.

Links

Many links have title attributes which describe the link in greater detail, unless the text of the link already fully describes the target (such as the headline of an article)

Links are written to make sense out of context.

Images

All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics may include null ALT attributes.

Complex images include TITLE attributes or inline descriptions to explain the significance of each image to non-visual readers.

Visual design

This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.

This site uses only relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified "text size" option in visual browsers.

If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets, the content of each page is still readable.

Accessibility references

• W3 accessibility guidelines explains the reasons behind each guideline.
• W3 accessibility techniques explains how to implement each guideline.
• W3 accessibility checklist a busy developer's guide to accessibility.
• U.S. Federal Government Section 508 accessibility guidelines

Accessibility software

• JAWS is a screen reader for Windows. A time-limited, downloadable demo is available.
• Lynx is a free text-only web browser for visually impaired users with refreshable Braille displays .
• Links is a free text-only web browser for visual users with low bandwidth .
• Opera is a visual browser with many accessibility-related features, including text zooming, user stylesheets and image toggle. A free downloadable version is available. It is compatible with Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and several other operating systems.

Accessibility services

• WebXACT is a free service to analyse web pages for compliance to accessibility guidelines. A full-featured commercial version is also available.
• HTML Validator is a free service for checking web pages conform to published HTML standards.
• Web Page Backward Compatibility Viewer is a tool for viewing your web pages without a variety of modern browser features.

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