Accessibility statement

Having trouble reading this page?

On the menu bar above you will find the Accessibility item which includes an item for increasing or decreasing the size of the font on our webpages and to change to a high contrast black and yellow.

  As an alternative, If you want to change the size of the font and are using a PC, press and hold down the Control key while also pressing the equals symbol (=). To further enlarge the text, keep the Control key depressed while you press the equals key again. Each repetition will enlarge the text.  To decrease the size of font hold down the Control key and press the minus symbol(-).

If you are using a Mac, holding down the Command (⌘) key and press the plus sign key (+) will enlarge the size of the font.  To decrease the size of the font hold down the Command key while pressing the minus key.

If you want the high contrast black on yellow the alternative is to hold down the control key and press the exclamation mark (! )key.  To revert back to this black and white page hold down the control key and press the question mark (?) key

Accessibility Features

Better Skills, Better Life are committed to making this website and our products as accessible as we can make them and also to comply with website comply with best practices and standards as defined by the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0, Section 508 of the U.S. Rehabilitation Act, and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA).

This site includes the following Accessibility functions:-

• The website can be navigated without a mouse
• Alternate highly customised pictorial main web page and Typing Test Choice and Trial Version Choice web pages with large fonts.
• Alternate highly customised pictorial main web page and Typing Test Choice and Trial Version Choice web pages with black and white and black and yellow versions
• All other pages are designed to react to the user’s browser settings for large fonts
• All other pages have alternate black and yellow web page versions
• All images have full descriptions

Our products include the following Accessibility functions:-

• The products can be used without a mouse
• We have ensured that our products have a good range of alternate colour options to assist the partially sighted and those with colour blindness conditions
• We have used big buttons where possible for ease of action by the user
• We have aimed to make the navigation of the website and products as screen reader friendly as possible
• We have enabled our products to be used mouse free
• We have enabled our typing tutorial products to be used with a screen reader

Training

Better Skills Better Life have paid for updating the skills of our web programmers to help to ensure that our website conforms to best practice in Accessibility insofar as we are able to do so at this time.  Our current and future support personnel are trained and will be trained to make the Accessibility needs of our users a top priority.

Feedback

If you find something that does not meet your needs, let us know so we can address your concerns.  We don’t want to let anyone down or have anyone feel annoyed with us so click here (Developer note, this links to Contact us) to let us know what’s wrong or what we could do better and we’ll do our best to fix it for you.

You can also give our website your own Accessibility score in your User Account  if you are a Registered User.  Registration is free click here (Developer note, this links to the Registration page)