The content of this website has been designed to be as accessible as possible to its audience regardless of disabilities. It has been implemented to support adaptive technologies including screen readers and text-only browsers.

Access keys

Access keys are keyboard shortcuts that replace the need to use a mouse for navigation. For this site, you can use:

Internet Explorer

ALT - 0 (press enter) to go to homepage
ALT - 1 (press enter) to go to content
ALT - 2 (press enter) to go to main menu links
ALT - 3 (press enter) to go to submenu links
ALT - 4 (press enter) to go to supplementary links
ALT - 5 (press enter) to go to footer links
ALT - 6 (press enter) to go to site search facility

Firefox and Netscape

ALT - 0 (press enter) to go to homepage
ALT - 1 (press enter) to go to content
ALT - 2 (press enter) to go to main menu links
ALT - 3 (press enter) to go to submenu links
ALT - 4 (press enter) to go to supplementary links
ALT - 5 (press enter) to go to footer links
ALT - 6 (press enter) to go to site search facility

Macintosh based systems

CTRL - 0 (press enter) to go to homepage
CTRL - 1 (press enter) to go to content
CTRL - 2 (press enter) to go to main menu links
CTRL - 3 (press enter) to go to submenu links
CTRL - 4 (press enter) to go to footer links
CTRL - 5 (press enter) to go to footer links
CTRL - 6 (press enter) to go to site search facility

Note: Your browser may not support access keys.

Navigating

To navigate through this website please use the menu at the top of the page. You can use the tab key to navigate through the menu links. Using a screen reader or text only browser you can skip the navigation using the skip navigation link.

Font sizes

You may change the display font size to your preference using your browser:

Internet Explorer users:
Select View > Text size, and then your preferred size

Netscape users:
Select View > Text zoom, and then your preferred percentage size

Mozilla Firefox users:
Select Tools > Options > Content > Fonts & Colours then your chosen size

Opera:
Select Tools > Preferences > Web pages > Normal font then your chosen size

Safari:
Select Safari > Preferences > Appearance then your chosen font and size

Note: other browsers may vary

Style sheets and Font colours

You may import your own style sheet into this website:

Internet Explorer users:
1. Select Tools > Internet options > Accessibility
2. Next click on any or all of three checkboxes to ignore colours, font styles or font sizes
3. In the same window you can change your style sheet by clicking the checkbox that says, 'format documents using my style sheet' then simply browse to your style sheet and click OK

Netscape users:
1. Select Edit > Preferences > Appearance then your chosen colours and fonts

Mozilla Firefox users:
Select Tools > Options > Content > Fonts & Colours then your chosen font family

Opera:
Select Tools > Preferences > Web pages > Normal font then your chosen colour

Safari:
Select Safari > Preferences > Appearance > Standard Font > then your chosen colour

Layout

To conform to W3 accessibility guidelines, cascading style sheets have been used to create the layout of this site. However, the functionality and content are independent of this technology and users may disable the default style sheets to maximize flexibility with font resizing or implement their own style sheets in their browser preferences.

Conformance level

This site is compliant with a minimum accessibility level of WCAG A including all level 1 checkpoints and additional elements from WCAG AAA priority 2 and 3 checkpoints together with additional recommendations from the Royal National Institute of the Blind guidelines.

Please visit the W3 accessibility guidelines and RNIB web access centre more information.