Accessibility
At Paradigm Recruitment our aim is to make our website as accessible as possible to the widest range of visitors and customers.
This
means considering the specific needs of those with visual or physical
impairments, learning difficulties and other forms of disability. In
addition it means having an understanding of different browser
technologies. We produce our sites to meet current best practices and
guidelines.
The benefits of this approach:
Sites
are available to as wide an audience as possible and across a variety
of technologies. They will also be accessible to future devices.
Sites meet guidelines for those users who may have impairments and difficulties using the web.
Sites load quicker and use less bandwidth.
How do we do it?
We follow what are known as ‘Web
Standards’. In the past many web browsers were released that did not
follow a common standard for interpreting web pages; they focused on
their own propriety code. The result was that we had to sometimes make
several different versions of one site for all the various browsers and
there would often be inconsistencies across these sites.
In
recent years the makers of web browsers have adopted and brought in
support for an open set of standards. These standards are laid down by
the W3C, a not for profit organisation, that oversees the development
of the web.
There is now a move towards this standard based approach
method of building websites and Cherry Pick People is proud to be
working in this way.
Further Information:
Royal National Institute of the BlindWeb Accessiblity and UK LawAccess Keys:
If
your browser supports access keys we have defined them for the top
level of the site. We have not gone beyond that level as we believe
having too many access key creates a burden on the user in remembering
them.