Page updated on: Friday April 23, 2010
We endeavour to make sure that every page complies with the World Wide Web Consortium's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), as part its Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). This site has been built to achieve Priority Level 1 checkpoints.
This means that people who have a disability should be able to use the website. A list of the accessibility features in this site is below.
Visual (Impaired)
Those with visual impairments (e.g. myopia) can scale on all pages on the site to suit their own requirement.
Hearing
There is no content on this site that cannot be accessed by the deaf or hard of hearing. If audio content is to be included a transcript will also be made.
Cognitive
The layout of this site is uniform on all pages. The main menu is structured identically on all pages.
Neurological
There are no animated images or flashing text on this site which could – in extreme cases – cause difficulty for some suffering from particular neurological disorders.
The main content text on the website is specified in percentage terms, meaning that its size can be increased inside the browser window for easier viewing. The ability to support text scaling varies from browser to browser, but given below are some guidelines for the latest versions of Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator and Opera.
In Internet Explorer, select the View | Text Size menu command. You can then choose from a range of text sizes (Largest, Larger, Medium (default), Smaller and Smallest). Note that Internet Explorer cannot resize images.
In Netscape Navigator, select the View | Text Zoom menu command. You then have a range of text sizes (in percentages) to choose from, or you can select your own percentage. You can also continually increase or decrease the current zoom factor by pressing the Ctrl and +, or Ctrl and - key combinations. Note that Navigator cannot resize images.
In Opera, select the View | Zoom menu command. You then have range of percentages to choose from. Opera scales everything on the page, not just text, so images will also increase in size as you increase the zoom factor.
Where possible downloaded files are made available in PDF and Word format. The size of the file is shown next to the link so that users on slow connections can choose the download that suits them best.