Accessibility

Our website has a number of accessibility features including:

* using accessibility keys (listed below)
* using a common design throughout
* cascading style sheets
* ensuring that images used are given appropriate alternative text descriptions (‘ALT and title texts’)
* avoiding the use of other proprietary publishing formats and other media formats that require third-party plug-ins.

Accessibility keys

The following Accessibility keys are available to assist navigation of the site. Use the numbers above your alphabetic keyboard, not your numeric keypad if you have one:

In Mozilla Firefox:

Alt + Shift + 1 – Home page
Alt + Shift + C – Contact us
Alt + Shift + S – Sitemap
Alt + Shift + A – Access key details (this page)

In Internet Explorer:

Alt + 1 then press enter – Home page
Alt + C then press enter – Contact us
Alt + S then press enter – Sitemap
Alt + A then press enter – Access key details (this page)

In Apple Safari:

Ctrl + Alt + 1 - Home page
Ctrl + Alt + C - Contact us
Ctrl + Alt + S - Sitemap
Ctrl + Alt + A - Access key details (this page)

Adjusting the text size

The size of the text within this site can be increased or decreased as required:

In Mozilla:

Increase text size = Ctrl + +
Decrease text size = Ctrl + -

In Internet Explorer:

Select 'text size' from the View menu and then choose the text size you require.

We welcome your suggestions and comments:

If you have any accessibility or technical problems when using this site, please email the detail to us.