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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4 - Skip to secondary site navigation
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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

Third Sector TV: Suzi Leather on governance and regulation

In the first instalment of Third Sector TV, Charity Commission chair Dame Suzi Leather talks to Third Sector editor Stephen Cook about public benefit, the status of religious charities and and the challenges faced by the regulator.

Malawi: Jamie Cooper-Hohn runs the Children's Investment Fund Foundation. Credit: The Children's Investment Fund Foundation

Women & Giving: We don't just sign the cheques

Women often take the decisions about giving away their husbands' or their fathers' money, but they also earn and give away fortunes of their own. Helen Barrett reports.

Massie (left) and Clark (right) Credit: Newscast

News analysis: The Compact at the crossroads

As the Compact enters a new era, the sector is still divided on the issue of its legal status.

They said it...

John Knight

"We must pay attention to branding - even if we see it as a necessary evil."

John Knight on professionalisation of campaigning