Accessibility & Standards
Our website has been built with findability, accessibility and usability in mind, so we hope you can find, access and use the information you need.
We aim to make the information on this site accessible to as many people as possible.
This page explains the accessibility features available on the website. We are always happy to receive feedback about accessibility on the website via our Tell Us What You Think form.
On this page
Accessibility
- Help with understanding the information
- How to change the size of the text on this site
- How to navigate around the website using a keyboard
- Help with downloading media files and documents
- How to contact the support team via email on the website
- Useful links to accessibility websites
Standards
What coding standards do we follow?
- W3C coding standards
- Microformats - Making information on this site work for you
- User centred design – the ISO standard
Help with understanding the information
We aim to present information in plain and simple language so it is easy to understand for as many people as possible.
Where we have used specialist terms or terminology you may not be familiar with we have defined them in our glossaries. There is one glossary for each admissions test:
Change the size of the text
There are various ways to change the size of the text displayed on each page.
Change the text size on the web page
At the top of each page you can click on the Text size: ‘smaller’ and ‘larger’ links
- Text ‘larger’ increases the text size each time you click it
- Text ‘smaller' decreases the text size each time you click it
Change the text size in the browser
To increase the size of text on this site:
- Microsoft Internet Explorer: View > Text size
- Mozilla Firefox: View > Text size
- Opera: File > Preferences > Fonts > Minimum font size (pixels)
Alternatively, scroll with the wheel of your mouse whilst holding down the control key.
Use your own stylesheet
You may also import your own stylesheet into this website.
Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Tools > Internet Options > Accessibility
- Next click on any or all 3 checkboxes to ignore colours, font styles or font sizes. In the same window you can change your style sheet by clicking the checkbox that says, 'format document using my style sheet' then simply browse to your style sheet and click OK
Mozilla Firefox
- Edit > Preferences > Appearance
- You will be given the choice to specify your own colours and fonts
Help with downloading media files and documents
There are some documents and media files available for download on the website. Most of them can be found in the 'Background & Research' and 'Test Preparation' sections.
Downloading documents
You can download documents and open them to read in your web browser or save them to your computer to read offline.
To read a downloadable document in your web browser simply click the link to the document.
To save a downloadable document right-click on the download (PC) or shift+click (Mac) and select the 'Save link' or 'Save target' option.
Help with accessing PDF files
To read PDF documents you need Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. Commonly this is already on your computer and is usually installed with your web browser. If you find you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader you can download Adobe Acrobat Reader for free.
Contact the support team via email on the website
If you cannot contact the helpline by telephone or email you can type a text message to our admissions tests support staff using the Tell Us What You Think form. They will respond to your enquiry by email.
Useful links to accessibility websites
BBC - My Web My Way
My Web My Way, from the BBC, is a comprehensive accessibility resource containing lots of advice about how to adjust your computer to get the best out of the web.
What coding standards do we follow?
We aim to use valid, semantic web mark-up on all pages of this website.
W3C coding standards
This site’s code validates to the XHTML1.1 STRICT web standard as defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). On all pages content has been separated from the presentation and functionality through the use of semantic mark-up and cascading stylesheets (CSS).
User-Centred Design – the ISO standard
User-centered design (UCD) is an approach to design that revolves around the people who will use it.
The approach for developing the Cambridge Assessment website followed the international standard for Human Centred Design ( ISO 13407: Human-centred design process ). This standard defines a general process for including human-centred activities throughout a development life-cycle.
The design, structure and development of this site have all been informed by testing with real end-users.
We are always looking for new user testing subjects to help improve systems across Cambridge Assessment. If you would like to volunteer yourself as a test subject in future user trials please email imnewmedia@cambridgeassessment.org.uk