Accessibility Statement

Design

This site uses CSS to control the fonts and spacing of site content. It has also been used for layout and background images where possible. This has been done to seperate the content from the display style in order to make the content more accessable. All pages have been built using well structured mark-up to allow graceful degradation in enviroments not supporting CSS. This means content has been created to be as accessible through a variety of mediums.

This site uses relative font sizes to allow the user to control text size through their browser should it be too small or too large. To change text size access the appropriate menu from within your chosen web browser.

Document

Website mark-up has been declared as XHTML and validated as being compiant XHTML 1.1. The webpages have a language encoding of english and a character set of UTF-8.

All pages have been given Dublin Core metadata to describe the documents content.

All pages on this site aim to meet the Priority 2 requirements of the W3C WCAG 1.0; many of the Priority 3 requirements are also met.

If users are having any issues viewing pages on adaptive technologies please contact us.

NB We have taken a decision not to use access keys on the site, because of conflicts with browsers and operating systems.