Accessibility
The WBS web site is designed to service the widest range of people using the widest range of technologies. By using style sheets, we separate content from its presentation, so that our site remains functional whether you're using a high-specification graphical browser over broadband, or a Braille browser on a wireless modem connection.
Page styles
All the styling in the site uses Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), which you can override or replace with your own. See our style sheet page for help and alternatives.
Headings
Each page is grouped with headings - if your web browser or reader has a "headings-reading mode" or equivalent, you can use this to skip through the major sections of any page.
This mode can also help with using the site navigation bar; it has a level-two heading "Site navigation" just before it, while each of the top-level links inside the navigation is a level-three heading.
Keyboard navigation
We have provided a series of keyboard shortcuts intended to help users who have difficulty in using pointing devices such as a mouse.
Check your browser documentation. Typically, you will need to hold down Alt and then press the relevant access key.
| 1 | WBS Home | Go to the home page for Warwick Business School |
| 2 | Accessibility | Go to the WBS accessibility pages |
| 3 | Navigation for the site | Go to the site navigation bar |
| 4 | Topic navigation | Go to the menu of topics and pages for the current section |
| 5 | Related links | Go to the related links (if any) for the current page |
| 6 | Main content | Go to the start of the main content for the current page |
| 7 | Help | Go to the help pages for the WBS site |
| 8 | A-Z and site map | Go to information about the WBS site structure |
| 9 | University | Go to the University of Warwick home page |
| 0 | Feedback | Go to the WBS site feedback page |
Further keyboard navigation for serial browsers
The site navigation bar is simply a list of links. You can use Tab for navigation, and Enter to activate links, or whatever keystrokes you would normally use.
Further keyboard navigation for graphical browsers
If you're using any Mozilla browser, or Windows Internet Explorer 5 or above, you can navigate the site navigation bar menu with the keyboard.
Press the F12 hotkey to jump onto the navigation bar, then move around the menus with the arrow keys. You can activate a link by pressing Enter, or jump back onto the page with F12 again.
In other browsers you can still move around the navigation bar using Tab and Shift-Tab, or whatever keystrokes you would normally use.
Hotkey preferences
If you want to change the F12 hotkey you can do so using the form below:
Web standards
As part of its Web Accessibility Initiative, the web standards organisation, W3C, has published Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
WCAG has three levels of measures to support accessibility.
We aim to meet or exceed Priority 2 Double-A (AA) across the WBS web site.
There are occasional pages, particularly where we use content supplied from sources outside WBS, where we cannot guarantee Double-A rating. If you find any pages which are inaccessible to you, please let us know and we will try to help you.
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