Accessibility
We have taken a number of steps to ensure our website is easy to use for all its users. Listed below are a number of these accessibility features and how to make best use of them.
Access Keys
For users that have difficulty navigating a website with a mouse, the use of access keys for keyboard navigation can be useful. The following access keys can be used on the website:
- 1 - Home page
- 9 - Sitemap
- 0 - Accessibility statement
- S - Skip to content
Text Size
This site is designed in such a way as to allow users to change text size depending on their preference.
For Internet Explorer:
View > Text Size > Smallest/Small/Medium/Larger/Largest
For Mozilla, Firefox, Netscape 6+:
View > Text Size > Increase or Decrease
Downloadable Documents
The site makes use of PDF files for downloadable documents. In order to view these files you will need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Use of Adobe Flash multimedia content
The website may make use of the free Adobe Flash player for video and other interactive content. This can be download at http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer.
Standards Compliance
Every effort has been made to ensure that this website is coded to the highest standard. This means using XHTML for markup and CSS for presentation and ensuring code validates whenever possible. The site also adheres to the general spirit of “web standards” by using semantic markup.
Images
All images on the site should have corresponding ALT text provided so that they can be understood by non-visual readers.
Links
Many links have title attributes which describe the link in greater detail, unless the text of the link already fully describes the target.
Whenever possible, links are written to make sense out of context.