Accessibility on this website
Web accessibility makes a website accessible to users with and without disability, regardless of what browsing technology you are using.
Standards compliance
This site is built on valid XHTML 1.0 Strict for structure and CSS for presentation.
A modern web browser like Firefox, Safari or Opera is needed to make the most out of this site, but thanks to the separation of content and presentation it should be accessible to any browsing device, including Internet Explorer.
Resizing the text
To increase the text size:
- Internet Explorer: View > Text size
- Firefox: View > Text size
- Opera: File > Preferences > Fonts > Minimum font size (pixels)
Alternatively, scroll with the wheel of your mouse whilst holding down the control (Ctrl) key.
Design
- For those using screen readers, the content comes before the navigation on each page - at the start of the content you have the option to skip to the main content.
- All pages are designed using CSS - no tables whatsoever have been used in the design of this website.
- Structure and presentation have been completely separated.
- All text is assigned a relative font size - this means that you can resize the text if you want to.
- 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 relies on CSS2, which is unsupported by IE 4 and below and Netscape 4 and below. It can still be accessed on these browsers but with no styling applied to the pages. The decision to use CSS2 was taken due to the very small number of Internet users browsing with these older versions (now less than 1%). We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
We are doing all this to comply as best we can with the accessibility guidelines set out by the WC3 guide and make our website available to as many as possible.