Maple Systems verify that this site has been reviewed and tested to meet W3C standards, making our site more accessible to all visitors regardless of any physical disability or the technology used.

The Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international body that sets the standards used on the internet. Through its Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), it develops strategies, guidelines, and resources to help make the Web accessible to people with disabilities.


W3C A, Double-A and Treble-A Standard logos.

Other Standards:

Our websites are built to the latest design standards laid out by the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C). These standards ensure that sites are built correctly and can be accessed through a number of web technologies.


XHTML, HTML and CSS Standard logos.

1. Access Keys:

Access key functionality provides access to key parts of the website navigational system.
To use access keys follow the following guidelines:

For PC users, press the 'ALT' button on the keyboard plus the access key number or letter, followed by the 'Enter' key.

For Mac users, press the 'Control' button on the keyboard plus the access key number or letter, followed by the 'Enter' key.

The access key numbers and letters are listed below:

1 = Home
2 = Support Services
3 = Internet Services
4 = Sage Solutions
5 = Hardware
6 = Portfolio
7 = Contact Us
8 = Login

2. Tab indexing:

Every time the tab key is pressed the next link is selected. This is shown by a dotted line around the link text or image. Tab indexing is designed to make tabbing through the website easier and also to enable visitors to access the website only using a keyboard.

3. Magnifying your screen:

All recent versions of Windows include magnification software which can help some people to more easily read text on the screen.

The Windows magnifier lets you increase text to a very large size. It is, however, restricted to a small portion of the screen so most visually impaired people find that they require fully-functional magnification software.

4. Reading Difficulties

For people with a significant vision impairment or listening difficulty, there is a text reader available within Windows.

This Narrator is a basic screen-reading program. It offers speech feedback for all menus and dialog boxes that include hyper-text within a website.

Please note: Window's Narrator is only available for Windows 2000 and XP.

5. Keyboard or Mouse?

Most people think that Windows has to be operated with the mouse, this is not the case. In fact not only can Windows be operated entirely from the keyboard, but doing so can often be faster and easier than using the mouse.

This is obvious in 'Tab Indexing'.