Accessibility

The content of this website has been designed to be as accessible as possible to its audience regardless of disabilities. It has been implemented to support adaptive technologies including screen readers and text-only browsers.

This site is compliant with WCAG 2.0, conforming to Level AA and satisfies some elements of Level AAA.

For more information regarding web accessibility please visit the accessibility guidelines section at the W3C's website.

Access keys

Access keys are provided on this site to allow navigation to key areas of the site without the use of a mouse. Skip links on this site are provided at the top of the page and becomes visible when tabbed on to it.

Most browsers support jumping to specific links by typing keys defined on the web site.

Windows OS

  • Internet Explorer: press ALT + an access key then press ENTER
  • Firefox: press SHIFT + ALT + an access key then press ENTER

Macintosh OS

  • Safari, Firefox: press CTRL + an access key then press ENTER

Pages on this site define the following access keys:

  • Accesskey '1' - Skip to content
  • Accesskey '2' - Skip to main menu
  • Accesskey '3' - Skip to sub navigation menu
  • Accesskey '4' - Skip to search facility
  • Accesskey '5' - Skip to footer links
  • Accesskey '6' - Skip to accessibility page

Site navigation

To navigate through this website please use the menu at the top of the page. You can use the tab key to navigate through the menu links. Using a screen reader or text only browser you can skip the navigation using the skip navigation link.

Font-sizes

You may change the display font size to your preference using your browser:

  • In Internet Explorer, select View >Text size, and then your preferred size
  • In Firefox select Tools >Options >Content >Fonts & Colours then your chosen size
  • In Mac Safari select View >Zoom In (or Zoom Out)
  • Other browsers may vary

Style sheets and Font styles

In the some browsers you can import your own style sheet into this website or control the font size:

  • In Internet Explorer select Tools >Internet options >Accessibility. Next click on any or all of three checkboxes to ignore colours, font styles or font sizes. In the same window you can change your style sheet by clicking the checkbox that says, ‘format documents using my style sheet’ then simply browse to your style sheet and click OK
  • In Mozilla Firefox select Tools >Options >Content >Fonts & Colours then your chosen font family
  • In Safari on a Mac select Safari > Preferences and click on the Advanced tab. You can choose the minimum font-size and also import your own style sheet.

Remove all colour information

Some browsers also facilitate changing colours on this site:

  • In Internet Explorer select Tools >Internet options >Accessibility >Ignore colours specified on Web pages
  • In Mozilla Firefox select Tools >Options >Content >Fonts & Colours >Colours >then uncheck “Allow pages to choose their own colours, instead of my selections above”
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