Accessibility

We believe that everyone should be able to access our website regardless of any  impairments or technical constraints.

Some of the measures we have taken to ensure that this website is accessible are  detailed briefly below:

Standards compliance

WAI

To our knowledge all pages within the site comply with the Web Accessibility  Initiative (WAI) Priority 1 Guidelines. Many Priority 2 and 3 guidelines have also been followed in the creation of this website.

Forms

All forms have been made accessible using labels that are explicitly associated with the text boxes, radio buttons and checkboxes that make up these forms.

Text

Use of text
Where possible text has been used instead of images on this website.
Text Size
To allow full user control over how text appears on screen, this site has been created using relative text sizes.

Contrast and colour

Contrast
The site has been tested to ensure that pages provide sufficient contrast when viewed by users with colour blindness or when viewed on a black and white screen.
Colour
No information is conveyed through colour alone.

Navigation and links

Link colour
Links are consistently pink in colour throughout the site.
Skip navigation
The inclusion of a 'skip navigation' link, which is available on all pages within the web site, allows easy access to main content area.
Opening links
All links to other websites will open in the same window. Publications and downloaded documents open in a new window.
Link context
Some browsers for example JAWS, Lynx and Opera can extract the list of links on a page and allow the user to browse the list separately. For this reason, wherever possible, links are written to make sense out of context.

Images

Alt text
All content images include descriptive ALT text attributes. Structural graphics have been given null ALT text attributes.

Further information

Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
International standards organisation, part of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).