Accessibility

These page explains how the site aims to meet the needs of visitors irrespective of any technical or physical limitation they may have.

Access keys

In conformance with UK government guidelines, the following access keys are in use on our site:

• 0 - Access key details
• 1 - Home page
• 2 - What's new
• 3 - Site map
• 4 - Search
• 8 - Terms and conditions
• 9 - Feedback form
• S - Skip navigation

To use this facility, press Alt at the same time as the requred access key, and then press return.

Standards compliance

The site is aimed at full compliance with standards which enable popular browsers to function correctly. The target standard is XHTML 1.0. The site uses the W3C validator to ensure compliance.

Text

Text can be resized to suit the visitors requirements. In Microsoft Internet Explorer this is done using the toolbar option View/Text size.

Images

Images (other than simple graphic design elements) have an alterntive text item which provides a meaningful description of the image.