I Dont Do Addictive Drugs is committed to making its website available to as many people as possible meeting the requirements of the Disability Discrimination Act and makes every effort to ensure its communications are accessible to those with special needs, including those with visual, hearing, cognitive and motor impairments.

Many Internet users can find websites difficult to use due to the way they have been designed. We recognize that this is an important issue and endeavor to ensure that the iddad.org website is accessible in accordance with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) guidelines.

Our efforts to make this website adhere to WCAG 2.0 (Level AA) conformity guidelines to improve accessibility are ongoing, so if you come across a page you find difficult to use please let us know.

Standards Compliance

All pages validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional and use structured semantic markup. Our pages conform to Level AA compliance.

Accessibility Design

Many Internet users with disabilities find website difficult or even impossible to use simply because of the way they are designed. This website has been designed to be as accessible as possible and to be compatible with the types of adaptive technology used by people with disabilities, including screen readers. As such, visitors can control the size of the text and can use ‘access keys’ on the keyboard rather than the mouse to navigate through pages.

The stylesheet uses relative font sizes and is written to display pages correctly in most commonly used browsers. In early versions of browsers and browsing devices that do not support stylesheets at all, the flow of the content has been tested to ensure it entirely retains its sense.

Foreground and background colors contrast well throughout the site, with the majority of content appearing black on white.

The site is free of frames and uses a cascading style sheet for visual layout. Tables are used for tabular data, but we have avoided using them to dictate the layout of a page wherever possible.

Internal Navigation Links

At the start of every page are invisible links providing direct access to content, navigation and the accessibility statement, each with access keys. When keyboard navigating, however, the links become visible.

Links

External website links on the site will open a new browser window and most links have title attributes, which describe the link in greater detail, and in the majority of cases the text of the link already fully describes the target. Wherever possible, links are written to make sense out of context.

Link text is never duplicated. Two links on the same page with the same link text always point to the same address. External links on the site will open a new browser window. New windows are never opened without either a warning in the text or in the ‘title’ attribute of the link.

Images

All content images on the site include descriptive ALT attributes. Those purely decorative graphics or used for layout include empty ALT attributes.

PDFs

Most documents on this website are PDFs (portable document format). The advantage of a PDF is that it will always be presented consistently. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to open PDF files, and this can be downloaded for free here. Adobe’s free reader includes screen reading functionality.

Adobe also has a free online conversion tool for PDFs so people who have problems reading PDFs can convert them so that they appear as normal web pages or plain text.

Flash

Macromedia Flash technology has been avoided on this site due to known compatibility issues with website accessibility.

JavaScript

The majority of the site has been configured to allow users access to its full range of functionality whether or not they have JavaScript enabled in their browsers. Where JavaScript is used, it is only used to enhance the user experience. It is never essential. The exception to this is the ability to view video footage. This requires that JavaScript is enabled.

Known browser support

This website operates on a wide range of browsers.

PC operating systems:

Internet Explorer 7 and 8

Mozilla Firefox

Safari

Google Chrome

Opera

Apple Macintosh operating systems:

Safari

Mozilla Firefox

Google Chrome

Opera