Help and Accessibility
Accesskeys
This website provides a number of access keys which can be used to select particular links on pages throughout the site. All pages provide the following access keys:
Home page: accesskey = 1
Skip to content: accesskey = 2
Help and accessibility page: accesskey = 3
Skip to subnavigation: accesskey = 4
To use access keys:
On Windows: press ALT and the access key, then enter.
On Macintosh: press Control and the access key, then enter.
Resizing the text
To increase the text size:
Internet Explorer: View > Text size
Firefox: View > Text size
or hold Ctrl and then press the plus / minus sign
Alternatively, scroll with the wheel of your mouse whilst holding down the control key.
Standards compliance
This website aims to conform to: W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1
Priority 1, 2, and 3 guidelines
XHTML 1.02
CSS 2
Design
For those using screen readers, the content comes before the subnavigation on each page - at the start of the content you have the option to skip to the subnavigation.
All pages are designed using CSS - no tables whatsoever have been used in the design of this website.
Structure and presentation have been completely separated - the HTML documents contain just the text that you see on the screen and some structural tags (for example, and <font> are not used on this website).
All text is assigned a relative font size - this means that you can resize the text if you want to (see instructions above).
All informational images have been assigned descriptive ALT text and decorative images are either relegated to the CSS document or have a null ALT attribute.
Browser compatibility
This website has been tested and proven to offer full functionality on Windows and Macintosh with:
* Internet Explorer 5.5, and 6.0
* Firefox 1.0.7 and 1.5
* Safari 1.3
* Screen sizes ranging from 800px to 1600px in width
This website relies on CSS2, which is unsupported by IE 4 and below and Netscape 4 and below. It can still be accessed on these browsers but with no styling applied to the pages. The decision to use CSS2 was taken due to the very small number of Internet users browsing with these older versions (now less than 1%). We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
