We're always committed to making www.scholl.com accessible to all users, and we're continually striving to improve it. Our website includes the following features:
Font sizes
Use your web browser to select your preferred font size.
For Microsoft Internet Explorer: select View, then Text Size and select your preferred size
For Firefox: select View, then Text Size and select Increase or Decrease
For Netscape: select View, then Text Zoom and select your preferred size
For Apple OSX: hold down the apple key and press the + and – keys to increase or decrease the font size
Screen reader/voice browser/screen magnifier users
Our navigation mechanisms are accessible by screen readers and voice browsers. Text equivalents of all images have been provided and the relevant page and table header tags inserted.
Colour-blind users
We have checked the site font and background colour combinations for the different colour-blindness conditions and ensured that items are not referenced by colour alone.
Keyboard-only users
The web pages on the site have been tested for use in keyboard-only operation. When using the forms or controls for the tools, the keys to use are as follows:
To select from drop down boxes, use up and down arrow keys
To select/unselect a check box, use the space bar
To move forward between links, use the tab key
To move back between links, use the Shift + tab keys
To initiate an action button, use the Enter key when the action button is selected.
Focus highlighting
Using the tab key, this feature helps keyboard-only users navigate more easily around the web page.
Adobe pdf files
Some additional information is available on our website in the form of Adobe pdf files. Clicking on a link to these files will open a new browser window.
For more information about reading these files with assistive technology, please visit www.adobe.com
Online conversion tools for Adobe PDF documents can also be found on this page of the Adobe website.
Adobe Flash files
Some areas of our site include Adobe flash files. If you are unable to view a file you can download a free copy of Flash Player at: http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
Pop up and new browser windows
www.scholl.com creates pop up windows for the user to view:
All other websites
Adobe Acrobat files
Access keys
Please note that we don't have access keys on our site, as these can override screen reader shortcuts.
Standards compliance
We have aimed to conform to Level AA compliance as specified by the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
As a part of the functionality of our search engine we currently employ a proprietary tag in order to provide more useful search results; while this is rightly flagged as non-compliant XHTML, its use greatly increases usability of the search engine and should be the only compromise to XHTML validation on the site.
If you have any questions or comments about our site accessibility please contact us using the Contact Us page.