Accessibility features

We have implemented the following accessibility features on this website to make it easier to use for people with disabilities. The features improve navigation for screen reader users, keyboard navigation and users of text-only browsers.

 

This website aims to meet level A standard of the W3C’s Web Accessibility Initiative’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. It also includes many features found in AA sites such as colour considerations and easily resizable fonts.

 

Please find a list of accessibility features considering during the development of this site;

 

Navigation menus

Navigation menus are marked up as HTML lists. This ensures that the number of links in the list is read out at the start and it can be skipped easily.

 

Images

All images used in this site include descriptive alt attributes.

 

Colours

We have checked the site's font and background colour combinations against the different colour blindness conditions and ensured that all information is still clear.

 

Font sizes

You may change the font size of this document to your preference through your browser:

In Internet Explorer, select View, then Text Size, and then your preferred size.

In Netscape select View, then Text Zoom, and then your preferred percentage size.

 

Style sheets

This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout. If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the use of structured semantic markup ensures that the content of each page is still readable and clearly structured.

 

Tables

All tables have properly scoped header cells, to allow screen readers to render them intelligently. Where required, tables also have a caption and a summary.

 

Tables are not used for layout.

 

Forms

All forms follow a logical Tab sequence.

Labels are associated with fields using HTML label tags.

 

Java script

The use of Javascript has been kept to an absolute minimum. Where it is used all pages and process remain accessible should Javascript be turned off.