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.
Hidden skip navigation links have been provided at the top of the page which jumps the user down to an anchor within the main content that replace the need to use a mouse for navigation.
Hidden skip links available are:
To use the keyboard Accesskeys:
| Browser | Version | Activate Accesskey |
| Internet Explorer | IE 5+ (Windows) | Alt + Accesskey, then Enter |
| Internet Explorer | IE 5, 6 (Mac) | Ctrl+ Accesskey |
| Firefox | FF <= 1.5 (Windows) | Alt + Accesskey |
| Firefox | FF 2 (Windows) | Alt + Shift + Accesskey |
| Firefox | FF 2 (Mac) | Ctrl+ Accesskey |
| Firefox | FF 3 (Windows) | Alt + Shift + Accesskey |
| Opera | Early versions | Accesskey not supported |
| Opera | v7+ (Windows or Mac) | Shift + Escape, (release) then Accesskey |
| Mozilla | (Windows) | Alt + Accesskey |
| Mozilla | (Mac) | Ctrl+ Accesskey |
| Safari | v1.2+ (Mac) | Ctrl+ Accesskey |
| Netscape | NN 6-8 (Windows) | Alt + Accesskey |
| Netscape | NN 9 (Windows) | Alt + Shift + Accesskey |
| Netscape | NN 6+ (Mac) | Ctrl+ Accesskey |
Please note your browser may not support access keys.
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.
Text size
You can make the text on this site bigger or smaller to suit you if your browser supports text resizing (i.e. recent versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari or Opera).
To resize your fonts:
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 Netscape select View > Text zoom, and then your preferred percentage size
- In Mozilla Firefox select Tools > Options > Content > Fonts & Colours then your chosen size
- Other browsers may vary
Style sheets and Font colours
You may import your own style sheet into this website:
- 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 Netscape select Edit > Preferences > Appearance. You will then be given the choice to specify your own colours and fonts.
- In Mozilla Firefox select Tools > Options > Content > Fonts & Colours then your chosen font family
Remove all colour information
To navigate this site without colour:
- In Internet Explorer select Tools > Internet options > Accessibility > Ignore colours specified on Web pages.
- In Netscape select Edit > Preferences > Colors then chose “Use my chosen colours, ignoring the colours and background image specified”
- In Mozilla Firefox select Tools > Options > Content > Fonts & Colours > Colours > then uncheck “Allow pages to choose their own colours, instead of my selections above”