Beutel Goodman & Company Ltd. is committed to making its website accessible
to as many people in society as possible, including the disabled.
We have begun incorporating web accessibility features in October 2011 to
make most of the articles and functions more disabled-friendly from this point.
This means the website is designed and content is presented in a way that is
friendly to the assistive technology that the disabled use on their computers.
Given our limited resources at this stage, we are unable to make everything
on this site, including past articles, accessible for all types of disability.
However, we will continue to improve the web accessibility features and
comply with standards set by the Accessibility Standard for Customer Service,
Ontario Government, where we can. It will be an on-going process.
We welcome any feedback that will help us achieve this. If you have
questions or suggestions, please e-mail them to general@beutelgoodman.com.
Accessibility features on Beutel Goodman
& Company website
Disabled-friendly view option
This removes unnecessary visual materials, scrolling/blinking text or pop-up
windows, and allows the text size to be increased, to make reading easier for
those with partial vision or age-related conditions. In addition, users can use the View>Text
size>Largest or a screen magnifier to enlarge the text size. We have also tested our site with Vischeck and found it easy with persons with different
strains of color blindness.
Images
Images are accompanied by alternative text in the html source code, which
can be perceived by screen readers, as a way to provide more helpful or
informative descriptions of the images to visitors using such assistive
technology.
Tables
Tables are created in html (instead of being presented in image format) and
have row and column headers so that they can be easily read by screen readers.
Navigation
The web page structure is designed to have a logical and predictable tab
order (left to right, top to bottom), for the benefit of people who use the
keyboard and not the mouse to navigate. <h1> tags are used to demarcate
the title which is the start of an article, to help visitors using screen
readers and other assistive technologies to skip all the sections in the navigation
bar if they want and jump straight to the article. We have also added the Site Map for Easy Access Menus
Others
Due to limited resources, we are unable to provide speech-to-text conversion
for audio materials. However, we will provide a short description of the
content in the caption or article text, to inform visitors with visual or
hearing disabilities what the content is about. We will also avoid using
instructions or descriptions like “Click here“ or “Click on the word in
bold/blue“ or “The picture on the right“, as these would not be helpful
information to people with visual disabilities.
