Accessibility
Functionality and accessibility are core to our online best
practice, we programme for the widest audience meeting DDA and W3C
standards.
Text Re-sizing
Use the browser to increase your font size. Go to your toolbar
(at the top) select view, then choose text size and select the size
that suits you best.
Navigation
If you have any difficulty finding anything then go to our
site map and browse through all the
pages that way.
Links
Links have title attributes which describe the link in greater
detail (unless the text of the link already fully describes the
target such as the headline of an article). Wherever possible,
links are written to make sense out of context. Many browsers (such
as JAWS, Home Page Reader, Lynx, and Opera) can extract the list of
links on a page and allow the user to browse the list separately
from the page.
Link text is never duplicated; two links with the same link text
always point to the same address.
There are "javascript:" pseudo-links. However all are supplied
with Alt tags. All links can be followed in any browser, even if
scripting is turned off.
There are no links that open new windows without warning.
Images
All content images used on this site include descriptive ALT
attributes. Purely decorative graphics include empty ALT
attributes.
Visual design
This site and all its archives use cascading style sheets for
visual layout.
Internet Explorer has a limited text re-sizing feature ("View"
menu, "Text Size"), but it only works with relative font sizes. A
special style sheet that uses relative font sizes is automatically
served to visitors using Internet Explorer. (Download Mozilla if
you require something with a higher degree of re-sizing).
If your browser or browsing device does not support style sheets
at all, the content of each page is still readable.
All designs are checked with vischeck which tests for varying
methods of colour blindness.