Accessibilty

This website is designed to be accessible to as many users as possible, and to meet or exceed current UK accessibility legislation and internationally accepted guidelines.
accessibility features on this website

Standards Compliance
Pages on this aim to conform to the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines to at least priority 2 level.

Pages on this site aim to conform to both the spirit and the letter of the United Kingdom Disability Discrimination Act 1995.

All pages on this site adhere to current web-standards, and validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional.

All pages on this site use structured semantic markup, meaning that if your browser or browsing device does not support CSS, the content of each page should still be readable.

Background colours
You can change the background colour of this website by clicking on the appropiate colour - You can find this on the Homepage.

Links
Linking text have been written to make sense out of context, and, wherever possible, title attributes which describe the link in greater detail have been added.

Images
All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes.

Font Sizes
You may change the font size of this document via the preference-settings of your browser. Goto View , Text Size - Select your text size
Additionally, all modern browsers (with the exception of Internet Explorer for Windows) allow resizing of text via the keyboard using CTRL ( apple-control for Macintosh) and the '+' or '-' keys.

Navigation shortcuts
In addition to Access Keys (below), use of the Tab key to navigate through the page has been ordered to facilitate ease-of-use for those who rely on the keyboard for navigation.

Access Key Settings In order to aid navigation around this site, the following keyboard Access Keys are enabled.

• Home - 0
• Accessibility - 1
• Contact Us - 9

How to Use Access Keys
Access Keys are selected in different ways according to which browser you use:

Internet Explorer 5+:
Hold down the ALT key and select the number/letter of the access key, then press ENTER.

Internet Explorer 4:
Hold down the ALT key and select the number/letter of the access key.

Internet Explorer 5+ for Mac:
Hold down the CTRL key and select the number/letter of the access key. Internet

Explorer 4.5 for Mac:
Access keys are not supported. Netscape 6+:
Hold down the ALT (CTRL for Macintosh) key and select the number/letter of the access key.

Netscape earlier versions:
Access keys are not supported.

Mozilla and variants (including Firefox and Camino):
Hold down the ALT (CTRL for Macintosh) key and select the number/letter of the access key.

Safari (Mac OS X):
Hold down the CTRL key and select the number/letter of the access key.

Omniweb (Mac OS X):
Hold down the CTRL key and select the number/letter of the access key.

Opera 7.5+:
Press SHIFT+ESC, followed by the number/letter of the access key.

Accessibility References & Software

• W3 accessibility guidelines, which explains the reasons behind each guideline.
• W3 accessibility techniques, which explains how to implement each guideline.
• The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA)
• JAWS, a screen reader for Windows.
• Home Page Reader, IBM's screen reader for Windows.
• Lynx, a free text-only web browser for blind users with refreshable Braille displays.
• Firefox, a standards-compliant, secure visual web-browser with many user-configurable accessibility-related features, including: text zooming; user style sheets; image toggling. A free download is available for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and other operating systems.