We've improved the accessibility of Mydiamonds.com to help you navigate around more easily than ever. We've selected a series of access keys for our most important pages.

Access keys are keyboard shortcuts that replace the need to use the mouse for navigation in browsers that support them. To visit your pages of interest, simply follow the directions below.

Please note:

If you use an Apple Mac you will need to press "Ctrl" and the access key instead of "Alt" and the access key.

If you use Internet Explorer v.6 you will need to press the "Enter" key after the shortcut keys.

Font Sizes

There is a new "Text Size" feature that lets you make the text on our website bigger and easier to read. Simply click your preferred text size from the three options below and you will see an instant change that will stay with you throughout our website. Please note that Cookies must be enabled to use the Text Size feature.

Accessibility

Text Size

Standards compliance

• The pages on our selling website conform at a minimum to level A compliance as specified by the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and endorsed by the Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB).
  
• All pages validate as XHTML 1 Transitional and use structured semantic markup. The CSS also validates.
• We strive to obey the spirit of the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) of 1995 with respect to the provision of services online, as required by the Disability Rights Commission (DRC). http://www.disability.gov.uk/dda/
  http://www.drc-gb.org/

Structured, semantic markup: Headings and navigation menus

• HTML heading tags are used to convey document structure. H1 tags are used for main titles, H2 tags for subtitles, and so on.
  
• Navigation menus are marked up as HTML lists. This ensures that the number of links in the list is read out at the start and it can be skipped easily.

Images

All content images used in this site include descriptive alt attributes. Purely decorative graphics include empty alt attributes.

Colours

We have checked the site's font and background colour combinations against the different colour blindness conditions and ensured that all information is still clear.

Style sheets

This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout. If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the use of structured semantic markup ensures that the content of each page is still readable and clearly structured.

Scripting

Java script is used on the website to improve usability and is required for online shopping. However it is possible to browse the website without Java script.

Links

Linking text has been written to make sense out of context.

Where appropriate, links have title attributes which describe the link in greater detail, for example to advise you if the link will open in a new window.

Search

A search facility is available throughout the site to help you find products. The access key ALT+ f will take you straight to the search field.