Accessibility
Web accessibility refers to the practice of making web pages accessible to people using a wide range of web browser software and devices, not just standard web browsers. This is especially important for people with disabilities such as visual impairment. We are commited to making this web site available to everyone. If you have any difficulty using this site, please contact us.
Resizing the text
You can increase the text size:
- Internet Explorer: View > Text size
- Firefox: View > Text size
- Opera: File > Preferences > Fonts > Minimum font size (pixels)
Or alternatively, scroll with the wheel of your mouse whilst holding down the control key.
Standards compliance
This website aims to conform to:
Design
- For screen reader users, the content comes before the navigation on each page - at the start of the content you have the option to skip to the navigation
- All pages are designed using CSS
- Structure and presentation have been completely separated - the HTML documents contain just the text that you see on the screen and some structural tags
- You can resize text if you want to as all text is assigned a relative font size
- All informational images have been assigned descriptive ALT text and decorative images are either relegated to the CSS document or have a null ALT attribute
Browser compatibility
This website has been tested and proven to offer full functionality on Windows, Macintosh and Linux with:
- Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.2, 5.5, 6.0 and 7.0
- Firefox 1.0.7, 1.5 and 2.0
- Opera 8.0 and 9.0
- Safari 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3
- Netscape 7.0 and 8.0
- Konqueror 3.0.5
- JAWS screen reader 6.0 and 7.0
