Accessibility

This page contains infomation about the accessibility
features programmed into this website.

Access keys

Most browsers support jumping to specific links by typing keys defined on the website. Windows users, you can press ALT + an access key. Macintosh users, you can press Control + an access key.

All pages on this site define the following access keys which are those adopted as U.K. Government Standards:

Access key S - Skip navigation
Access key 1 - Home page
Access key 2 - About Us page
Access key 3 - Site Map
Access key 6 - Contact Information
Access key 8 - Policies and Standards
Access key 0 - Accessibility statement

Standards compliance

All pages on this site are WCAG AAA approved, complying with all Priority Level 1, 2 and 3 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. This is a judgement call; many of the guidelines are intentionally vague. They require a subjective assessment and cannot be tested using any of the third party automatic validators. We have reviewed the guidelines and believe that all pages comply.
All cascading style sheets (CSS) validate using the W3C CSS Validator.
All pages on this site use structured semantic markup. H1 tags are used for the page title, H2 tags for main headings within the document and H3 tags for sub headings.

Navigation aids

All pages contain a 'skip navigation' link for speech browser users. Windows users press ALT + key 's', Macintosh users press Control + key 's' to jump the speech browser to the main content area of the page.

Images

All content images used in this site include a descriptive ALT attribute.

Visual Design

This site uses cascading style sheets (CSS) for visual layout.
If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets or stylesheets are switched off, the content of each page is still readable and the site fully navigable.
This site uses only relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified "text size" option in visual browsers.