Accessibility

Website Accessibility Statement

This website has been built to internationally recognised accessible website guidelines produced by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and aims to reach, even possibly exceed, Level Double-A of those guidelines by meeting all Priority 1, 2 and some additional Level 3 checkpoints.

This page provides information on ways that this website has been written to assist users identify helpful features of this site.

Navigation

Navigation of this site is primarily accomplished via a left hand navigation menu which has a an Access Key link to allow screen-readers to reach the content of each page more rapidly.

Access Key	Function
0	Go to the Accessibility page
1	Go to the Site Map
h	Go to the Home page
c	Skip to the main content of the current page
m	Skip to the main navigation

Please note that some assistive technology tools such as the IBM HomePage Reader and WindowEyes already make use of the alt+[access key] combinations. As such, users of these tools will not be able to use these access keys.

Flexibility

This site has been designed using Cascading Style Sheets to allow the user to override the default appearance of the site in a number of ways, the most basic of which is to ensure that users can change their font size easily through their browser options.

• Internet Explorer

  To change your default font size in Internet Explorer select:
  'View' menu > 'Text Size' > Select chosen size (Largest to Smallest)

• Mozilla Browsers

  To change your default font size in Netscape 7 or Mozilla browsers select:
  'View' menu > Either 'Increase Text Size' or 'Decrease Text Size'

• Opera Browsers

  To change your zoom level in Opera browsers select:
  'View' menu > 'Zoom' > Select chosen level

PDFs

While wherever possible we have provided an HTML version of content on this website, some content is provided in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. For information on how to access this content with specialist browsers please visit http://access.adobe.com/

You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view PDF files.
Download Adobe Acrobat Reader for free.

Further Information

Additional information on various aspects of accessibility issues can be found at http://diveintoaccessibility.org/ or the official W3C guidelines are available at http://www.w3.org/WAI/