Accessibility

Marketing Birmingham is committed to ensuring that VisitBirmingham.com is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of technology or ability.

We are actively working to increase the accessibility and usability of our website and in doing so adhere to many of the available standards and guidelines.

VisitBirmingham.com endeavours to conform to level Double-A of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0.

VisitBirmingham.com has been built using code compliant with W3C standards for HTML and CSS. The site displays correctly in current browsers and using standards compliant HTML/CSS code means any future browsers will also display it correctly.

While Marketing Birmingham strives to ensure that VisitBirmingham.com adheres to the accepted guidelines and standards for accessibility and usability, it is not always possible to do so in all areas of the website.

We are continually seeking out solutions that will bring all areas of the site up to the same level of overall web accessibility. In the meantime should you experience any difficulty in accessing VisitBirmingham.com, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Text resizing

If the default text size on VisitBirmingham.com is difficult to read, users can increase the text size using the following methods:

  • PC - Internet Explorer 7 - From the menu bar underneath the search field, select Page and point to Text size
  • PC - Other browsers - Increase text size: Hold down the CTRL key and press + Decrease text size: Hold down the CTRL key and press -
  • Mac - All browsers - Increase text size: Hold down the Command key and press + Decrease text size: Hold down the Command key and press -

Access Keys

VisitBirmingham.com provides a number of access keys which can be used to select particular links on pages throughout the site. All pages provide the following access keys:

  • Home page: Accesskey = H
  • Sitemap: Accesskey = S
  • Contact us: Accesskey = C

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