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Accessibility

We’ve tried to make our website as accessible as possible. We hope this will ensure that all visitors - regardless of any impairment - will be able to successfully view and use this site.

To make your visit as successful and enjoyable as possible, we have created a website that conforms to the highest possible levels of accessibility in respect of coding, plain language, navigation and user experience - Level AAA of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

These features are particularly useful to visitors who have a visual impairment or learning difficulty.

Navigating our Website

• Navigation across the website is consistent - all related links are displayed in the navigation bar on the left hand side of every page
• External Links - any link that goes outside of our website has a title saying (this will open a new window, please close to return)
• Access keys - we have enabled access keys (short cut keys) to the main Navigating link.
• This website can be viewed in any browser and at any screen resolution, however it is best viewed in Internet Explorer 5.0+ with a screen resolution of 800 x 600

Adobe Acrobat Documents
Where it is essential that a document retains the look of the original (paper) document, we use Adobe Acrobat to create PDF documents. Each link to a PDF document is identified by the PDF logo . The file size of the document will also be displayed on the link .If you cannot view Acrobat documents you can download the free Adobe Reader here - click on the "Get Adobe Reader".

Plain Language
Wherever possible we use plain language throughout this website. Plain language is language that everyone in our audience can easily understand. The only exceptions to this are documents of a technical or legislative nature.

Level of Accessibility of this site

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
W3C ensures that the coding of a page is correct and interoperable. Every page on this website has been validated against the W3C guidelines and approved as XHTML 1.0 Strict

Bobby
Bobby checks individual webpages to ensure that they conform to U.S. Section 508 and the W3C's WCAG accessibility guidelines. Every page on this website has been validated against the highest possible level of accessibility - Bobby Level AAA

None Graphic Version
Every webpage has a link in the top right hand side for text only version.