Mill Cottage Montessori School

Mill Cottage
Montessori
School

Old Mill Cottage 2005
Mill Cottage Montessori School
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Website Accessibility

Access Keys

Mill Cottage Montessori School website uses access keys (keyboard shortcuts) to assist site navigation without a mouse.  The use of these keys will depend on your browser.  For example users with Microsoft Internet Explorer for Windows need to click the access key while holding down the ALT key and follow this with the enter key.

Our access keys are normally highlighted on the visible page link by underlining the appropriate letter.  In addition some keys have a second, numerical, access key in line with UK Government recommendations.  The access keys are as follows:

0 or Y - This page (Access key details)
1 or H - Home page.
9 or C - Our Contacts page.
A - About the School.
F - School Fees.
L - The Learning Environment.
M - What is Montessori?
P - Privacy statement.
S - Skip Navigation.

Some popular browsers implement access keys as follows:

Internet Explorer: Windows: Alt+AccessKey followed by Enter
Internet Explorer Mac: Ctl+AccessKey
Firefox Windows: Alt+AccessKey or Shift+Alt+AccessKey on Version 2
Firefox Mac: Ctl+AccessKey
Opera Windows: Shift+Esc followed by AccessKey
Safari Mac: Ctl+AccessKey

Text Sizes

This website uses relative sizes for text.  This means that you can increase (or decrease) the size of the text using your browser's controls.  We also have a facility within the website to change the size of the main body text on the page.  Use the "A" links near the top right of the page to change the size of the main body text.

Some popular browsers implement text size changes as follows:

Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8: Open the 'View' menu, select the 'Text Size' option and choose your preferred text size.
In Internet Explorer 7 and 8 you can also use the zoom facility (Ctrl and the "+" key, or Ctl and the "-" key) to increase or decrease the size of the whole page, not just the text size.
Firefox: Open the 'View' menu and select the 'Text Size' option and choose your preferred text size.  Alternatively you can use Ctrl and the "+" key to increase the text size or Ctrl and the "-" key to decrease the text size.
Opera: Opera has a zoom feature similar to Internet Explorer 7.  Use the "+" or "-" keys to increase or decrease the page size or Ctrl and the "+" key, or Ctl and the "-" key to increase or decrease the page size in large increments.

Standards Compliance

Valid XHTML 1.0 icon, W3C XHTML 1.0 Strict Valid W3C CSS icon Level Triple-A conformance icon, W3C-WAI Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0

To maximise the accessibility of this website to as many users and user agents (web browsers) as possible we strive to comply to standards set down by the World Wide Web Consortium.Link opens in a new window  These are XHTML 1.0 Strict, Cascading Style Sheets and the Web Accessibility Initiative Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.  Pages have been automatically verified to conform to the Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 and manually checked for conformance with the the Accessibility Guidelines 2.0.  Foreground and background colour combinations have been chosen to conform to both standards.

Links to external sites

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