Accessibility

Third Sector aims to provide information that is accessible to all user groups. The following features aim to enhance navigation for screen reader users, keyboard navigation and users of text-only browsers.

Access keys
S - Skip navigation to main content
0 - Accessibility Infomation
1 - Homepage
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Using access keys
This website should be usable with only a keyboard

PC
Internet Explorer 6 or above - hold down 'Alt' and press the relevant letter/number key, then press 'Enter'.
Mozilla Firefox 1.5 or above - hold down 'Shift' and 'Alt' and press the relevant letter/number key.
Opera - hold down shift and escape, release both keys and press the relevant letter/number key.

Mac
Mozilla Firefox - press 'Ctrl' and the relevant letter/number key.
Safari - press 'Ctrl' and the relevant letter/number key.
Opera - hold down shift and escape, release both keys and press the relevant letter/number key.

Structured, semantic markup
This site's markup (HTML) is semantically correct, using HTML elements for their given purpose. Well structured HTML has semantic meaning for a wide range of user agents (browsers without style sheets, text browsers, PDAs, search engines etc.)

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

Font sizes
You may change the font size of this document to your preference through your browser: In Internet Explorer, select View, then Text Size, and then your preferred size. In Netscape select View, then Text Zoom, and then your preferred percentage size.

Style sheets
This site uses Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) 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.

Forms
All forms follow a logical Tab sequence.

In depth

Media Digest: 2 July

Third Sector's pick of the top news stories from today's papers and news feeds, from a campaign backing a university applicant to lobbyists targeting the European Court of Justice.

ECT Group: Sold its recycling business. Credit: Newscast

News analysis: What's the price of social enterprise?

The sale of part of the ECT Group raises fundamental issues for the rest of the sector. Helen Warrell reports.

Bielecka: 'jumping from task to task'

My week: Alison Bielecka, leader of Volunteer Development Scotland's local partnership team

The leader of Volunteer Development Scotland's local partnership team battles the beeps.

They said it...

John Knight

"For many, the Compact can be bureaucratic and hard work. For me, it means collaboration."

John Knight, assistant director, policy and campaigns, Leonard Cheshire Disability