The website is designed to work properly with assistive technologies like screen readers, and also to allow you to customise its appearance without making it harder to use.

This website aims to conform:

• W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines - priority 1, some of priority 2
• XHTML 1.0
• CSS 2.0

Changing Text Size

You can increase or decrease the text size to change the look of the pages by using one of the following buttons provided under the menu bar:

• Larger Text – Increases the text size on all pages
• Smaller Text – Decreases the text size on all pages
• Reset Text – Resets the text size to default on all pages

You can also change the text size in one of the following ways:

• Internet Explorer – View > Text Size
• Firefox – View > Text Size
• Opera – Tools > Preferences > Advanced > Fonts > Minimum font size (pixels)

Alternatively, scroll with the wheel of your mouse whilst holding down the control key.

Listen to our website

If you have a visual impairment or other difficulties reading this site, you may find the BrowseAloud speech-enabling software useful. Once installed and set-up it will read aloud website content as you move your mouse over it.

Text only

As well as making all graphic templates accessible, we have also included a text only option. This will allow users to view the website in high contrast and without graphics and pictures.

Tabbed Indexing

We have included tab indexing on our website which makes tabbing through our site easier. It also helps users who access the website using only a keyboard.

Visual Design

To help you view our website we have:

• Used colours with a maximum contrast between background and foreground
• Given all meaningful images and graphics an Alt-text name which describes what you would be looking at it if the image was not displayed.
• Used style sheets so you can change the size of the text using your browsers text size controls.