Somerset Parent Partnership is committed to making the content of this website as accessible to as many people as possible. Under the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA), goods and services must be provided on equal terms to anyone with a disability.
Following the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)'s recommendations we have worked towards WAI Level AA (Priority 2) accessibility on our site. This website has been passed validation checks for XHTML 1.0 Transitional and W3C CSS compliancy.
Text Size
If you would like to change the text size used throughout this website, please use the Text Size links at the top of any page throughout the site. Alternatively, you can change the font size via your web browser's menu:
- Internet Explorer users: go to View > Text Size
- Firefox/Mozilla users: go to View > Increase Text Size
- Opera users: go to View > Zoom
Viewers And Plug-ins
This site contains links to Acrobat and Word documents. To view these you may need to download and install viewers: At the time of writing both of these are free downloads.
Navigation And Access Keys
This site has been designed to allow easy navigation using either the mouse or the keyboard. To navigate using the keyboard use the Tab key to move forwards through links or Shift + Tab to move backwards through links and the Return key to activate a link. Pressing the Backspace key will take you back one page.
Access keys are used to provide keyboard shortcuts as an alternative form of navigation around the website. Usage of access keys differs according to browser:
- Internet Explorer 5+: Hold down the Alt key and select the access character (see list below), then press Enter
- Internet Explorer 4: Hold down the Alt key and select the access character (see list below)
- Internet Explorer 5+ for Mac: Hold down the Ctrl key and select the access character (see list below)
- Internet Explorer 4.5 for Mac: Access keys are not supported
- Netscape 6+: Hold down the Alt key and select the access character (see list below)
- Netscape earlier versions: Access keys are not supported
- Mozilla: Hold down the Alt key and select the access character (see list below)
- Opera: In sequence press Shift then Esc and then select the access character (see list below)
- S - Skip navigation
- 1 - Home page (including Contact Us)
- 2 - Support For Parents
- 3 - Site map
- 4 - Support For Schools
- 5 - Leaflets
- 6 - Newsletters & Reports
- 7 - Events
- 8 - Local Support
- 9 - National Support
- 0 - Accessibility and access key details
- A - Other Useful Organisations
- B - How To Become A Volunteer (IPS)
- C - Who's Who
Site Map
This is a list of all the main pages on the site, organised hierarchically:
- Home
- What Do We Offer? How Can We Help? What Are Our Aims?
- How Can You Contact Us?
- Feedback And Confidentiality
- Accessibility
- Text Size
- Viewers And Plug-ins
- Navigation And Access Keys
- Site Map
- Privacy
- Support For Parents
- Request For Support From The Somerset Independent Parental Supporters' Service (online form)
- Support For Schools
- Leaflets
- Newsletters & Reports
- Newsletters
- Reports
- Events
- Local Support
- National Support
- Other Useful Organisations
- How To Become A Volunteer (IPS)
- The Independent Parental Supporter (IPS)
- What Do We Look For In Our IPS Volunteers?
- How Do I Become An IPS?
- Who's Who
- Forum
Privacy
Some websites use cookies to "remember" information about you, which are small files stored on your local hard drive. This website does not use cookies.
Personal information about you is not stored unless a request for support is made via an online form (eg the Support For Parents page). In that case you must first agree that you understand that records will be kept on a database and that you have the right to have copies of that information.