Accessibilty Statement

This website has been developed and designed with accessibility and usability as a priority. We have strived to make the website available to all regardless of individual disability/ability. However, if you do encounter any difficulties, please contact us and we will try to improve the website to reflect your needs.

Standards Compliance

• All pages on this site are XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
• All pages on this site use structured semantic markup. For example, H1 and H2 tags are used for main titles, H3/H4 tags for subtitles.

Validation

• All pages on this site use valid markup, validated using the HTML validation service provided by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

Navigation

• Primary site navigation is located (site-wide) near the top of each page. Text based links mirroring the primary navigation can be found at the base of each page.

Navigation aids

• All pages have rel=home links to aid navigation in text-only browsers.
• A link to the home page is available on each page.

Breadcrumbs

• All pages have a breadcrumb trail. The breadcrumb trail helps visitors understand where they are in relation to the home page. This is useful for visitors who enter the site through a search engine.

Links

• Many links have title attributes, which describe the link in greater detail, (unless the text of the link already fully describes the target).
• Links are written to make sense out of context.

Skip Links

• For users of text only browsers the skip content link is made visible at the top each page.

Images

• All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes.

Visual design

• This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.
• If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.
• This site uses relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified "text size" option in visual browsers.

Colour Combinations

• Foreground and background colours have been used that provide a good level of contrast and therefore easy to read. Throughout the site, colour is never used as the only way to convey information.

JavaScript

• To enhance user experience this site utilises a small amount of JavaScript. If JavaScript is disabled or your browsing software does not support JavaScript the site is still fully functional.