This site conforms to the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative guidelines, to double-A standard.
The design of the website has a number of notable accessibility features. These include:
- Advice on browser accessibility options.
- Appropriate alternative text descriptions ("ALT texts") for all images on the site.
- No forcing open of browser windows, except for when downloading content.
- Document downloads marked in the copy with type and file size.
- A version switcher, allowing you to choose between Flash and HTML format.
- Links to Adobe, enabling you to download Acrobat and Flash Player if necessary.
The pages have been optimised to be best viewed with your screen resolution set to 800 x 600. To get the best from the colour images contained on these pages, we recommend you view with a colour depth greater than 256 colours.
This site uses PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file format for the publication of large and complex documents. Please note that Adobe Acrobat documents can be converted back to plain text using Adobe's Web-based conversion service.
To view and print PDF files, you must have Adobe® Acrobat® Reader installed: download the software.
The site also publishes documents in Microsoft Word format.
To view and print Microsoft Word files, you must either have Word installed on your PC or you can download Microsoft Word Viewer software.
Browser compatibility
We support modern web-standards compliant browsers. These include:
- IE 6 upwards
- Gecko-based browsers such as Mozilla, Firefox and Camino
- Opera
- KHTML-based browsers such as Safari and Konqueror
This is not an exhaustive list - other browsers that support web standards will also render our pages correctly .
Browser text-sizing tool
Most popular browsers feature a text-sizing tool in the toolbar.
With this tool you can resize text on screen to a level you feel comfortable with. Just click on the icon, and select a new size.
This tool is also available in the menu of various browsers as follows:
- Internet Explorer 6, Mozilla (Netscape, Firefox): view > text size
- Internet Explorer 7: page > text size (or zoom)
- Opera: view > zoom
Website build standards
- Designed to allow full screen viewing using 800x600.
- Provides structural elements (eg headings) before navigation blocks to signpost the navigation type (global or local).
- Writes page titles in this order: Pagename – Website. This is helpful for bookmarking.
- Is usable when viewed without stylesheets.
- Carries back to top links on long pages (more than one screen at 800x600).
- Signposts all external links and specifies size and type for document downloads.
- Alerts the user when opening a new window.
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