Accessibility Help

This website has been designed using international accessibility guidelines in order to ensure that it is accessible to as wide an audience as possible. If despite these measures you still find it difficult to navigate our site for any reason, please contact us. We'll do whatever we can to help.

Standards Compliance

This site complies with WCAG Priority 1 (A) guidelines as expressed in the W3 Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1999 and the Disabilities Discrimination Act 1995. In fact much of the design has been kept simple specifically in order to avoid potential accessibility problems.

In addition this website validates as XHTML 1.1 and CSS Level 2.1.

Every effort has been made to ensure that the above statements are true and correct at the time of posting. If you find otherwise please contact us.

Access Keys & Tab Indexes

This website has been configured using access keys and tab indexes which allow it to be navigated more easily by keyboard, for those that cannot or prefer not to use a pointing device. Most modern browsers support access keys; to use them on Windows press ALT + the access key, and on Macintosh press CTRL + the access key. You'll find a list of the access keys configured on this site below:

Access Key	Target Page
H	Home page
A	About
N	News
D	Documents
F	FAQ
C	Contact
1	Content Disclaimer
2	Site Map
3	Accessibility Help (this page)

Links & Images

For the benefit of those using text browsers or screen readers, images throughout the site have been configured with alternative text which describe them in greater detail.

Links have also been configured with alternative text and they have been specifically designed to be understandable regardless of context, i.e. wherever the link may appear in the website, it will be clear where it leads to, and why it might be useful to click on it.

Javascript has been used only minimally in the website.  Where it is used, it is not required to utilise a feature of the site.