Accessibility statement

We worked to make this website more accessible to everyone, including people with visual, motor or cognitive disabilities.

The following are some of the guidelines we adopted to make this website easier for you to use.

Navigation

• ‘Skip navigation’ link takes users with screen readers directly to important content. You can see it with styles turned off or by screen readers but is hidden from regular viewers.
• A text-only site map shows how the site is organised. The sitemap is located on the bottom of the page or in the skiplink for screen readers.
• All navigation still functions without javascript.

Links

• All links are text-based. If images are used for any links, the text is kept within the code so they are still text-friendly for screen readers, text-based browsers or users who browse with styles off.
• All link rollovers are high-contrast so they are easily distinguished from regular text and headlines that are not clickable.
• Link content text is contextual when possible to make navigation easier for screen readers.

Images

• Text alternatives are provided for all images through <alt> and/or <title> tags, to enable screen readers and users who browse with images off.

Forms

• Tab indexing is used so users can move through a form using the tab function on their keyboard.
• Label tags are used to enable screen readers and make completing form fields easier.
• Forms are more forgiving, with easy-to-understand error messaging so users know what to do next.

Fonts

• Relative font sizing is used rather than fixed font sizing so users can adjust text size.
• A6 A5 icons are used on every page so users can adjust text size.

Printable Pages

• All pages are optimised for printing.

Code

• All code is XHTML/CSS standards compliant, well structured, and well crafted.
• Presentation is separate from structure.
• Website content is device independent.

Browser support

We support all standards-compliant browsers:

• Internet Explorer 5 for Windows
• Internet Explorer 5 for Macintosh
• Internet Explorer 5.5 for Windows
• Internet Explorer 6 for Windows
• Internet Explorer 7 for Windows
• Mozilla Firefox for Windows
• Mozilla Firefox for Macintosh
• Netscape 7 for Windows
• Opera 7 for Windows
• Safari for Macintosh.

Standards compliance

Our design aims to meet the "Double-A" accessibility standard according to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, which is a World Wide Web Consortium Recommendation dated 5 May 1999. For full details:

• Accessibility checklist
• Accessibility Guidelines (general)

Meeting these guidelines is balanced with our organisational objectives so that the guidelines are followed whenever possible.

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