Accessibility
We have taken a number of steps to ensure our website is easy to
usefor all its users. Listed below are a number of these
accessibilityfeatures and how to make best use of them.
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
Access Keys
For users that have difficulty navigating a website with a
mouse, theuse of access keys for keyboard navigation can be useful.
The followingaccess keys can be used on the website:
- 1 - Home page
- 9 - Sitemap
- 0 - Accessibility statement
- S - Skip to content
To use these access keys in Internet Explorer 5+:
Hold down the ALT key, press the number of the access key,
release both keys then press ENTER
To use these access keys in Chrome, Mozilla and Firefox (up to
1.5) and Netscape 7+:
Hold down the ALT key and press the number of the access
key
To use these access keys in Firefox 2+:
Hold down the ALT and SHIFT keys and press the number of
the access key
To use these access keys in Opera:
Hold down the SHIFT key and press Escape, release both
keys, then press the number of the accesskey
To use these access keys in Safari:
Hold down the CTRL key and press the number of the access
key
Downloadable Documents
The site may make 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
tothe highest standard. This means using XHTML for markup and CSS
forpresentation and ensuring code validates wherever possible.
There maybe the odd slip, but we do try and keep a tight ship round
here, so ifyou spot anything let us know. The site also adheres to
the generalspirit 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
greaterdetail, unless the text of the link already fully describes
the target.
Whenever possible, links are written to make sense out of
context.