Accessibility Statement
// We've strived to make this website available to all
But if you've encountered difficulties or barriers, please contact us and we will try to improve the website to reflect your needs.
introduction
Our pages conform at a minimum to Level A compliance as specified by the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and endorsed by the Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB). The majority of Level AA and AAA requirements are also met.
Standards Compliance
All pages on this site are XHTML 1.0 strict. All pages on this site use structured semantic markup.
Validation
All pages on this site use valid markup, validated using the HTML validation service provided by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
All pages on this site are presented using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and have been validated using the CSS validation service provided by the W3C.
Navigation
Primary site navigation is located (site-wide) to the top-right of your screen. Screen readers/text only browsers will find the primary navigation at the top of each page.
access keys
All pages contain a 'skip to content' link for users who use speech browsers or keyboard navigation who wish to avoid repeated groupings of links.
Navigation aids
All pages have rel=home links to aid navigation in text-only browsers.
A link to the 'home page' is available on each page.
Navigation menus are marked up as HTML lists and styled with CSS.
JavaScript
To enhance user experience this site utilises a small amount of JavaScript. If JavaScript is disabled or your browsing software does not support JavaScript the site is still fully functional.
Links
Many links have title attributes, which describe the link in greater detail, (unless the text of the link already fully describes the target).
Links are written to make sense out of context.
Skip Links
For users of text only browsers the skip content link is made visible at the top each page.
Images
Any content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes.
tables
No table are used in this web site for layout purposes.
Visual design
This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.
If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.
This site uses relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified “text size” option in visual browsers.
Colour Combinations
Foreground and background colours have been used that provide a good level of contrast and therefore easy to read.
Throughout the site, colour is never used as the only way to convey information.
Useful links
The links below lead to guidelinesfor the following impairments:
- Help with seeing websites
- Help with hearing websites
- Help with your keyboard and mouse
- Help with reading websites
- Help with filling in web forms