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Accessibility

Using our site

Added: 6 January 2008. Last updated: 7 January 2008.

This site is built with accessibility in mind. We follow the W3Cs Web Content Accessibility Guidelines so that our sites are available to everyone.

This site conforms at a minimum to Level A compliance of the W3Cs web content accessibility guidelines and is built adhering to modern web standards. All pages should be XHTML and CSS compliant. If the site does not display properly in your browser, your browser may not be standards compliant and you should upgrade to a more modern browser. There are many excellent browsers freely available.

The BBC’s website: My Web, My Way provides excellent information about making the web easier to use with your browser and computer.

Access key

This site makes use of access keys as a navigational aid. Access keys are keyboard shortcuts that allow you to navigate without the need for a mouse. In Internet Explorer on Windows, you can press the ALT key and an access key; on the Macintosh press the Control (CTRL) key and an access key. You may need to press enter/return to activate the link depending on your browser.

  • s = Skip navigation
  • a = Accessibility
  • 0 = Home page
  • 1= Contact us
  • 2= Sitemap

Other features

The code used for this site is structured semantically and the content and presentation elements are separate. This helps users who use non-graphical browsers to use the site as content is structured logically and makes sense when read using a text based browser or with a spoken browser. As well as access keys the site uses tab indexing so that users with text based browsers can use the keyboard to navigate quickly and easily between links.

The text is sized with relative units which means users can scale or zoom the text to make it larger. The BBC’s My Web My Way website has more detail of how to do this for your specific browser.

All images have text descriptions and all external links open in the same window.

Testing

This site has been tested on the following browsers: Internet Explorer 6 and 7 (PC), Firefox 2 (PC and Mac), Safari 1 and 2 (Mac), Safari 3 (PC and Mac), Opera 9 (PC and Mac). If you experience any problems with this site please let us know.