This website has been designed to be used by a wide audience on a range of platforms. The pages have been built to meet as many of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (Level 2 (‘Double AA’) checkpoints as possible. Where appropriate, further measures are taken to meet Level 3 (‘Triple AAA’) checkpoints as required. For more information on web accessibility, take a look at the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) , Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).

Structural Markup

The web site is build using XHTML and CSS (Cascading Styles Sheets). When CSS are not applied to a document (or when using a screen reader), the structure of the site is such that it should still flow and make sense.

The site uses only relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified "text size" option in visual browsers. Most modern web browsers will allow you to resize the text content in a page and even zoom in on a whole page. This allows users with impaired vision to have a more useful web experience. Users with a small monitor may also wish to make the font size smaller to allow them to fit more content on the screen.

Javascript and Adobe Flash

Certain areas of websites can use Javascript to add functionality and provide an enhanced user experience. Where Javascript is disabled or not available, a version of the content is been provided with equivalent functionality. Where Adobe Flash (previously Macromedia Flash) is used, a suitable alternative for ‘non-Flash’ users is also provided.

Images

Alternate text is provided where the graphic contains text, the image has a contextual description of value or some other information can be conveyed.

Feedback

We welcome feedback on the Accessibility and usability of our website. If you have had any problems or any issues while using our site, we would like to hear about it. Email, phone and address details are on our contact page.