Accessibility of this website

 

Accessibility of this site

Every effort has been made to ensure that this site has been made as accessible to as many people as possible on a range of browsers.

This website has been built using a combination of HTML Transitional, XHTML and CSS. We have made reasonable efforts to ensure that this site complies with all priority 1, 2 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. However, please be aware that the content on this site is updated often and so cannot guarantee to accessibility of every page.

If you should notice issues with the way the site is displayed in your browser please report access issues/layout problems via e-mail.

 

Access Keys

In most browsers you can jump to specific areas of the site by using the keyboard shortcuts called accesskeys.

If you are using Windows, press ALT + 'access key' then enter; for Macintosh users, press Control + 'access key' then enter.

 

Resizeable Text

We have been careful to make sure that we haven't fixed the size of the textual information on the web site so that visitors who wish to can alter the font size on the screen to make it easier to read. There are a number of ways to change the text size in your browser, the easiest way is to follow the following steps: (In Internet Explorer)

It is also possible to increase the size of the text by holding down the ctrl key on the bottom left hand row of the key board whilst using the scroll wheel on the mouse to increase (or decrease) the size of the text.

 

Images and Alt Tags

Where images have been used we have added 'Alt' tags - text alternatives so that you can still see what the image is meant to convey even if it doesn't load or if you have chosen to browse with the images switched off or you are using something like a screen reader to read the web page rather than view.