Invest NI and CCEA strive to make its products and services, including its website, accessible for all users. This includes people with disabilities. The website complies with the World Wide Web Consortium’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) up to level A.

Your suggestions to improve accessibility would be appreciated. If you are experiencing any difficulties accessing the information on our pages, please contact the site webmaster through our enquiry page, by telephone   028 9022 3131, or via textphone 028 9022 3130. Provide feedback on accessibility at the make an enquiry page.

A number of accessibility features have been implemented to help you use our website. These elements aim to improve navigation for screen readers, keyboard navigation and text-only browsers.

 

The site uses clear, simple language which is easy to understand.

 

Our site is usable by anyone with colour deficient vision. We've checked the site's font and background colour to ensure there are no combinations against the different colour blindness conditions and ensured that all information is still clear.

 

The site uses relative font sizes on all text with the exception of graphical text.

 

Text size can be increased or decreased in size by selecting the View option in your browser.

 

The site uses cascading style sheets (CSS) to control page layout and styling.

 

Images that convey important information have alternative text. Where an image is used for a decorative purpose the empty alt attribute (alt=””) is used.

 

Many of our links point to forms and publications in Adobe Acrobat® Portable Document Format (PDF). You can get tools and information to increase the accessibility of PDF documents from the Adobe website.

 

You can view our online publications that are in Microsoft PowerPoint® (.ppt) format if you have any version of PowerPoint installed on your computer. If you don't have the software, the Microsoft Corporation offers a free PowerPoint file viewer. Download the PowerPoint file viewer from the Microsoft Office Online website.

 

You can view publications in Microsoft Word® (.doc) format if you have Word installed on your computer. Word documents can also be viewed with many other word processing software programs. Additionally, Microsoft offers a free Word file viewer. Download the Word file viewer from the Microsoft Office Online website.

 

Our website does not use pop-up windows.

 

Forms are clearly labelled to help readers to understand the content on a page and to fill in content into correct fields.

 

The website’s tables are clearly tagged. They do not use structural mark-up for visual purposes.

 

A site map is available to provide information about the layout of the website.

 

The low graphics version of the site provides a simplified navigation and also image structures to users who are limited to text only or screen reader technologies.

 

Navigation links are consistent between pages throughout the site. The site is also fully accessible using only the keyboard.

 

We have provided skip to main content and skip to main navigation links for screen reader users.

 

We have provided a series of keyboard shortcuts intended to help users who have difficulty in using pointing devices such as a mouse.

This web site uses the United Kingdom government access key system and the following information summarises each of the keyboard shortcut commands available to you.  Due to the structure of this website please note that some UK government access keys have not been implemented.

 

Press the 'Alt' key and the relevant access key: