Accessibility Statement

Northern Freight Services try to make their services available to everyone, this page details the measures we have made to make sure that our website is accessible to every kind of web user.

Northern Freight tries its best to be accessible to all kinds of users to demonstrate this our site complies to the guidelines set down by the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) and validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional while also meeting all the requirements for Level Triple-A Conformance (the highest possible) to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WAI).

In addition to the measures taken to meet the above awards, extra measures have been taken to ensure that the site is accessible:

Text sizes throughout the site are not fixed and so can be enlarged to provide better reading for partially sighted users without disrupting the layout too heavily. Some text is kept small consistantly but is available in a larger size on other pages.

ALT (alternate text) tags are used to explain images to blind or partially sighted users and are provided on every image that has a significant meaning. Blank ALT tags are used on some entirely decorative images (layout etc) so that more sophisticated accessibility software such as screenreaders will acknowledge them as purely aesthetic and ignore them.

Our website uses a mix of HTML, PHP, XML and CSS to ensure that the look of Northern Freight is consistant in all major web browsers and that accessibility software such as text only browsers and screenreaders are not hindered by the aesthetics of the page.