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Accessibility

The Ministry of Tourism and Aviation’s goal is to make it as effortless as possible for everyone, including people with hearing or vision loss, or any other disability, to access information about our Ministry.

If you encounter problems, we encourage you to contact us by telephone (1.242.302.2000) or email (tourism@bahamas.com). Our helpful staff will be delighted to assist you.

We are committed to providing an easy-to-use website and believe that every website visitor, regardless of their device type or reliance on assistive technology (including screen readers, font magnification, translation or voice recognition software) should be able to experience our site online at http://www.bahamas.com/.

To ensure this, our website  complies with Level AA success criteria of the W3C Website Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0), an international standard measure of accessibility success, and is continuously updated and enhanced to make our technology more accessible and user-friendly.

We have tested our website to confirm that we meet or exceed Level AA of the WCAG 2.0 Standard.

If you have questions, concerns, or would like to report an issue related to the accessibility features of our website, please contact us at tourism@bahamas.com

You can learn more about W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) HERE.
In addition, our full site was tested using SiteImprove, a third party authority in web accessibility. The website is routinely tested to ensure that any new or newly edited content conforms with the most up-to-date accessibility guidelines, as reported by the SiteImprove tool.

WEBSITE ACCESSIBILITY FEATURES
Our website conforms to most priority checkpoints which entail some of the following elements:

  • Navigation Shortcuts
  • To navigate our website, use the tab key to explore the elements of each page and the enter key to activate a highlighted link.
  • Structured, Semantic Markup
  • HTML heading tags are used to convey document structure. Navigation menus are tagged as HTML maps so that the menu title can be read, and the menu items are presented as a group.
  • Images Visibility
  • All content images include descriptive ALT attributes.

BROWSER HELP
Optimize the way you view your web browser. If you are experiencing difficulty reading our  website on your screen, changing the settings on your browser may help to improve the readability and visibility of each page:
Find out more about the accessibility features of these leading Internet Browsers through the links below:

STANDARDS COMPLIANCE
Our website is designed to conform to Level AA compliance, as specified by the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. All pages validate as XHTML 1.0 and use structured semantic markup.

ACCESSIBILITY REFERENCES

  • Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0, which details the reasoning behind each guideline.
  • Section 508, which includes information and news about the accessibility standards introduced by Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act.

ACCESSIBILITY SOFTWARE AND SERVICES
The following free tools and services are available to assist you with viewing and interacting with our website:

  • Click here for HTML Validator,a free service for checking that web pages conform to published HTML standards.
  • Click here for Web Page Backward Compatibility Viewer, a tool for viewing web pages without a variety of modern browser features.
  • Click here for Lynx, a free text-only web browser.