Website - accessibility

We are committed to providing a website that is accessible to as many people as possible - regardless of their ability or browsing technology and including those who have visual, hearing, motor and cognitive impairments.

We would like to give you control and let you decide how you want use the site. We try to offer accessibility options that are easy to discover, understand and select.

We aim to achieve overall compliance with the Web Accessibility Initiative's (WAI) guidelines.

Web Accessibility Initiative

We try  to conform to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0. These Guidelines explain how to make Web content accessible to people with disabilities. Conformance to these Guidelines helps to make the Web more accessible to users with disabilities and benefits all users.

There may be some pages that do not conform to all the guidelines. Whilst every effort is made to ensure the whole site conforms, this is an ongoing process and older content may not yet reach the standards in all areas.

If you have any problems accessing any information on the site, please contact us and we will endeavour to fix the problem or provide the information in an appropriate format.

This website is built using code compliant with World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards for XHTML and Cascading Style Sheets.

W3C is the governing authority on web development standards and practices.

Increasing text size

If you find the text on this site is too small, you can change it easily in your browser settings. To do this you should simply click one of the links below. The default setting is medium.

Changing colours

Changing the site's background colour can be particularly useful for users who rely on magnification technology as white can produce an uncomfortable glare. It is also possible to change the colour of body text on the site by clicking below:

Both can be achieved by changing preferences in your browser.

Images

All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes. Those in purely decorative graphics or used for layout include null ALT attributes. An ALT attribute is the text you see when you hover your mouse pointer over an image or the text that is displayed when images are turned off in your browser.

Visual design

This site uses cascading style sheets (CSS) for visual layout.

If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.

Plain English

The language used on the site will, where possible, be concise, easy to understand and free from jargon, abbreviations and technical terms.