Accessibility

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. The site displays correctly with current browsers, and using standard XHTML code means that any future browsers will also display this website correctly.

How We Help People With Disabilities Use Our Website

The accessibility guidelines we follow include:

  • Allowing users to control text sizes

  • Using an easy to read font type

  • Ensuring suitable foreground and background colour contrast

  • Using clear and simple grammar

  • Providing meaningful text equivalents for pictures

  • Providing simple, consistent site navigation

  • Providing navigational shortcuts for users of text only browsers and page readers

  • Using appropriate structural mark-up to maximise browser support

  • Ensuring all content and functionality is available to users without content style

  • sheet (CSS), image and script support

Further Help

If you have a vision impairment, visit the RNIB for specialist advice such as alternative screen readers, screen magnifiers and other devices that can make using a computer easier.

We recommend that you also visit the website of AbilityNet, the UK’s leading consultancy in the field of computing and disability.

If you have any problem accessing any information on our site, please contact us.