About This Site

Link Market Services (Link) are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of technology or ability.

Standard Compliance

The Link Market Services website has been built according to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards. The page design and layout is controlled by Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) with the integration of image replacements styling, which adds to the accessibility features on the website. Best practice Hypertext Mark-up Language (HTML) has been used to assist user accessibility in accordance with HTML 4.01 Transitional specifications and Web Consortium Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) priority 1 and 2 checkpoints.

Website Navigation

The primary navigation is sitting behind an image, which improves the visible design as well as maintains the accessibility of the website. Each navigation link has a text-based list which remains accessible regardless of any browser's disability including disabled Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and Javascript.

The extra features of 'Skip to navigation' and 'Skip to content' links have also been implemented into the website. These links appear at the very top of text-only websites, and allows the user to skip directly to the primary navigation menus or to the main content. Inclusion of a comprehensive sitemap also provides one-click access to any content within the site.

Visual Design

The visual design has been optimized for monitors with 1024 by 768 pixels resolution, however users lower pixel resolution are still able to access the website.

In addition, we have added functionality that lets the user easily increase and decrease the text size in the website thus gives user a quick access to alter the visual aspects of the website to suit their needs.