Accessibility help
Amnesty International aims to provide a website that is as accessible to people as possible. Whilst we cannot guarantee the quality or accessibility of content not published by Amnesty we have designed the website to W3C standards and we aim for AA compliance.
The World Wide Web consortium develops protocols and guidelines to ensure websites are as accessible to as many people as possible.
For Amnesty this involved using a number of technological and design implementations, meeting certain standards criteria and developing clear editorial guidelines for content published by Amnesty. This includes:
- text size throughout the site can be altered by using your browser settings
- all Amnesty produced images, audio and video files are accompanied by descriptions or alt tags
- Clear and consistent navigation and layout
- Use of XHTML Transitional 1.0
- Amnesty content written in plain language
- Use of jargon kept to a minimum
- Standard formats for different page types
