Accessibility

Standards compliance

All pages on this web site are written to the XHTML 1.0 Transitional standard, use Cascading Style Sheets for presentation and aim to meet the "AA" conformance level of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. This means that this website can be viewed in all modern browsers, regardless of platform or device.

Some older browsers (e.g. Internet Explorer 4 and Netscape 4) do not comply with these web standards. A minority of visitors still use these browsers and, as a result, will not experience the site as we have intended. They will be able to read the pages and navigate the site, but the site will look basic in comparison.

Text size

If you find that the text is too small for you to read, you can change it to a size that you are more comfortable with:

• in Internet Explorer (PC), use the View, Text Size menu
• in Netscape 6 or 7 and Internet Explorer (Mac), use the View, Text Zoom menu
• In Mozilla Firefox press CTRL + (increase size) and CTRL - (decrease size)

Access keys

Most web browsers support shortcuts called access keys that you can use to jump to specific areas of the site. If your browser supports them, press ALT + key (Windows) or CTRL + key (Macintosh) and then (in the case of links) Enter to use.

This web site follows the standard access keys as defined by the UK Government:

• 1 - Link to homepage
• 2 - Main content of this page
• 0 - Link to accessibility statement