Accessibility

We’ve built our site with the aim of making it as accessible and as usable as possible. It is intended to conform to Priority Level AA of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).

This page lists some of the features used to make the site easier to use and provides links to other resources.

Accessibility features

Skip to functions

‘Skip to’ functions provide links at the top of every page which allow users accessing this site with no styling to skip to different sections within each page.

The skip to functions available on this site are:

• skip to main navigation
• skip to page content.

Adapting your screen

Resizing text

You can enlarge the text on this site using the following methods.

Using Internet Explorer:

• Click on the View drop-down menu.
• Click on Text size.
• Choose your preferred text size from the list.

If the text is still not big enough:

• Click on the Tools drop-down menu.
• Click on Internet options.
• In the General tab, click on Accessibility.
• Select Ignore font sizes on web pages.
• Click OK, then click OK again.
• You should now be able to enlarge the text further using the method above.

Using Netscape 6 or Firefox:

• Click on the View drop-down menu.
• Click on Text size.
• Choose your preferred text size from the list.

Adapting your computer

This site gives detailed information on how to adapt your computer to your own preferences: My computer, my way. There’s good information on this BBC site too.

Standards compliance

This site has been built to standards:

• XHTML 1.0
• CSS 2.0.

Some tables have been used within the site for data presentation.