Accessibility Statement

Serpent’s Tail have worked with web designers Tourist Design to make our new website as accessible as possible. The site conforms to Level 3 of the Web Content Acessibility Guidelines 1.0.

Features include:

Access Keys

You can navigate to the main pages in the site via your keyboard. Press your ‘access key’ (usually ‘alt’ on a PC and ‘ctrl’ on a Mac) plus the following letters:

‘a’ = Authors section
‘n’ = News and Events
‘e’ = Extracts section
‘b’ = Book Trade information
‘t’ = About Serpent’s Tail
‘d’ = Deals and special offers
‘s’ = Search features
‘j’ = Join our mailing list
‘p’ = describes our Postage Deals

Visibility

All text remains readable even if font sizes are enlarged
High contrast between text and background

Text equivalents

All links and images have alternative ‘alt’ or ‘title’ text

Coding and Markup

Valid HTML and CSS
Structurally and semantically correct mark-up
HTML Tables are not used for layout purposes