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Accessibility statement

We have tried to make this website as accessible as possible and easy to use for everyone, regardless of circumstance or ability.

All the page templates on this website comply with level Double-A of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, including all Priority 1 and Priority 2 checkpoints defined in the Guidelines as a minimum requirement. Every effort will be made to ensure that all the content on our site meets this standard too.

We conducted user testing for accessibility during the development of the site and acted on the findings.

We are making every effort to ensure that we don't exclude any users. For example:

  • We try to use clear and simple language
  • We use alternative text for all our images
  • The HTML we produce conforms to the standard: HTML 4.01 Strict
  • We have tested the colours we use in the design for contrast.

We also try to publish all our text content as accessible HTML rather than in other formats such as PDF. Where we do publish PDFs or other formats our policy is to make them as accessible as we can.

The following features improve navigation for text only browsers, screen reader users, and users of keyboard navigation:

Style sheets

This site uses Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for visual layout. If your browser supports it, stylesheets can be disabled or over-ridden to customise the appearance of the website, to your preference.

Font sizes

You can change the font size of each page to your preference through the browser.

  • In Internet Explorer, select View, then Text Size, and then your preferred size.
  • In Firefox press CTRL + to increase font size and CTRL - to decrease. CTRL 0 will reset sizes to default.

Tables

Tables are used to display tabular data. Tables are not used for general site layout. This means our tables are being used in a correct and meaningful manner.

Colours

The site has been designed to be easy to read through its colour combinations. If you have any difficulty in reading parts of the site please Contact us.

Links

We have worked hard to ensure that our links are meaningful, and some links are explained in greater detail by using a title attribute.

Scripting

JavaScript is used on the site to improve usability. All pages and processes are still accessible and usable if JavaScript is disabled or unavailable.

Browsers

This website is built to HTML 4.01 Strict and CSS 2.0 standards.

This website will function and look as intended in browsers that support these standards. The most common of these are;

  • Firefox 2 +
  • Internet Explorer 6.0+

If you do not have one of these browsers installed or are unable to upgrade, you may find the website easier to use by disabling CSS altogether - please see your browsers help documentation for further information.

Please contact us if you have any questions, if you are having difficulties using the site, or would like to know more about what we are doing to make our websites accessible