Accessibility

Providing a site that is accessible to as many people as possible is something we feel strongly about. From our writing style to the page layout - we’ve tried to include as much best practice as possible.

If you have any suggestions for how to improve the site please let us know.

Browser compatibility

We support IE 6 and modern web-standards compliant browsers. These include:

• IE 7 upwards
• Gecko-based browsers such as Mozilla, Firefox and Camino
• Opera
• KHTML-based browsers such as Safari and Konqueror

This is not an exhaustive list - other browsers that support web standards will also render our pages correctly.

Browser text-sizing tool

Most popular browsers feature a text-sizing tool in the toolbar.

With this tool you can resize text on screen to a level you feel comfortable with. Just click on the icon, and select a new size.

This tool is also available in the menu of various browsers as follows:

• Internet Explorer 6, Mozilla (Netscape, Firefox): view > text size
• Internet Explorer 7: page > text size (or zoom)
• Opera: view > zoom

Website build standards

• Built using progressive enhancement techniques. This means all the content is accessible when javascript and CSS are turned off.
• Uses Ajax techniques to ensure a slicker user experience
• Option to toggle background video on and off.
• Designed to allow full screen viewing using 1024x768.
• Provides structural elements (eg headings) before navigation blocks to signpost the navigation type (global or local).
• Uses semantically correct markup.
• Writes page titles in this order: Pagename – Website. This is helpful for bookmarking.
• Carries back to top links on long pages.
• Signposts all external links and specifies size and type for document downloads.
• Alerts the user when opening a new window.
• Serves a print stylesheet to optimise layout when printing.