Accessibility

We want everyone to be able to enjoy our site, so we’re actively working to make our website more accessible and usable. To achieve this, we take our lead from a range of different standards and guidelines.

Standards
This website is designed to conform to level Single-A of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. These guidelines explain how to make web content more accessible for people with disabilities.

HTML validated
We’ve built this site using code that complies with W3C standards for HTML. This is to make sure our website displays correctly in today’s browsers – and in the future.

Resizable text
Most web browsers today allow you to increase or decrease the size of text on a web page.

How to Resize Text in Internet Explorer 9 and above
When using Internet Explorer 9 and above, there are three ways you can change how big text will look on the screen.

1. Magnify page with keyboard short cuts
With most websites you should be able to magnify everything that is on the screen with the keyboard.

• Use Ctrl and ‘+’ (plus) sign to make things bigger.
• Use Ctrl and ‘-‘ (minus) sign to make things smaller.

2. Zoom (magnify) using “View” menu
The Internet Explorer 9 browser has a zoom control that allows you to easily increase the size of the content of a web page up to 400%.

Step 1: Click on the “View” (or “Page”) item in the main menu bar. Or press “ALT + P” to open the menu.

Step 2: Go to “Zoom” and select the amount of magnification you want

3. Making text bigger using “View” menu
The Internet Explorer 9 browser has a control that allows you to easily increase text size.

Step 1: Click on the “View” (or “Page”) item in the main menu bar. Or press “ALT + P” to open the menu.

Step 2: Go to “Text size” and select the size you want

NOTE: The text size tool does not work on all sites. If the text size doesn’t increase, use Zoom (see above).

How to Resize Text in Firefox and Safari
In the menu, choose View > Zoom > Zoom In or Zoom Out

To resize only the text (rather than the whole web page) choose Zoom Text Only

To reset, select View > Zoom > Reset

Mac Keyboard Shortcuts
Zoom in: Cmd++
Zoom out: Cmd+-
Reset: Cmd+0

Windows Keyboard Shortcuts
Zoom in: Ctrl++
Zoom out: Ctrl+-
Reset: Ctrl+0

How to Resize Text in Chrome
In the menu, choose Page > Zoom > Your desired text size

Mac Keyboard Shortcuts
Zoom in: Cmd++
Zoom out: Cmd+-
Reset: Cmd+0

Windows Keyboard Shortcuts
Zoom in: Ctrl++
Zoom out: Ctrl+-
Reset: Ctrl+0

Changing styles
Most web browsers today will let you choose your own styles (fonts and colours).

• In the menu, choose Tools > Internet Options > Accessibility
• Click on any of the 3 checkboxes to ignore colours, font styles or font sizes
• Upload your own style sheet by clicking the Format document using my style sheet box and using the Browse button to select and upload your own style sheet

• In the menu, choose Tools > Options > Content
• To edit font styles: in the Fonts & Colours section, click on Advanced and choose your own font styles. Make sure Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above is unticked.
• To edit colours: in the Fonts & Colours section, click on Colours and choose your desired colours. Make sure Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above is unticked.

• In the menu, choose Edit > Preferences > Advanced
• In the Style sheet drop-down menu, select Other...
• Browse to select and upload your style sheet

Images
You’ll still be able to use and read this website with the images turned off. Unless they’re purely decorative, all images on this website have appropriate alt attributes. Additionally an image replacement technique may have been used which would allow text to remain accessible.

Comments, questions, suggestions?
We’re always looking for ways to make our website as accessible and usable as it can be. If you have any problems or ideas, email us at: [email protected].