Accessibility Statement
This site has been developed
to ensure content is available to the widest possible audience and
significant redesign has been undertaken on our site in order to meet
those standards that relate to access for people with disabilities or
technical constraints with their browsers and internet connections. By
adhering to guidelines for accessible web design, we acknowledge the
diversity of communication methods, available technologies and
abilities of web-users in the community.
We strive to maintain conformance to World Wide Web Consortium Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
However, if you are unable to use any part of this site please get in touch with us and we'll do our utmost to make it easier.
Navigation Aids
All pages on this site use
structured semantic markup. H1 tags are used for main titles, and H2,
H3 etc for hierarchical sub-headings.
All pages use a consistent navigation system on the left hand side of the page.
Links
Many links have title attributes
which describe the link in greater detail, unless the text of the link
already fully describes the target.
Wherever possible,
links are written to make sense out of context. Many browsers (such as
JAWS, Home Page Reader, Lynx, and Opera) can extract the list of links
on a page and allow the user to browse the list, separately from the
page.
Images
All content images include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics include null ALT attributes.
Visual Design
This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.
If your browser or browsing device does not support style sheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.
Changing the Text Size
When we designed this site, we
tried to use as large a text size as possible. However, we also had to
make sure we could get as much information as we could on the screen to
make it easier for you to find your way round the site. If you would
find it helpful to have larger text, you can change this yourself by
doing the following:
Locate
the buttons with different sized A characters on the right hand side of
the page towards the top. The current test size setting is shown by the
A that is underlined. By default the size is the smallest of the A
buttons, click on the appropriate size to suit you. Your choice is
stored in a small file on your computer called a cookie, and means your
choice of text size is shown when you return to the website. If this
doesn't offer sufficient change you can change the text size in your
browser as follows:
With Internet Explorer 6, click on View at the top of the screen and then select Text Size. You will then be able to choose Larger or Largest.
With Internet Explorer 7 , click on the 'page' button in your browser, click 'Text Size' and select the size you want.
With Firefox click on View at the top of the screen, then Text Size and select Increase or Decrease.
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