Accessibility

We are committed to providing a website that is as accessible and easy to use as possible for all our visitors, irrespective of disability, impairment or computer knowledge.

We want everyone to be able to use our website, and have built it in accordance to the WCAG 2.0 Level 'AA' guidelines. Where possible we have extended compliance to the Level 'AAA' guidelines.

Navigation

A sitemap is provided which contains links to all pages within this website. A full navigational structure with positional aids is provided throughout the site.

Usability

While every care has been taken to make this website as accessible as possible most modern browsers provide further assistive technologies.

For users running Apple Mac OS X please substitute key commands symbolised as [CTRL] with [cmd] (situated to the left of the spacebar on Apple keyboards).

Apple Safari

• Font size can be increased or decreased by holding down the [cmd] key and pressing the [ + ] or [ - ] keys respectively.
• ​Alternatively, from the menu bar, selecting 'View' and then either 'Zoom In' or 'Zoom Out' will allow you to adjust the text size.

See more information on assistive technologies in Apple Mac OS X and iOS

Google Chrome

• To change the font size click the 'Customize and Control' button to the right of the address bar and adjust your font size via the [ + ] and [ - ] buttons within this menu.
• Holding down the [CTRL] key and pressing [ + ] or [ - ] will also allow you to increase or decrease your font size.
• ​Alternatively type chrome://settings/ into your address bar, scroll to the bottom and click to show advanced content, and then you may change your font settings under the 'Web Content' section.

See more information on accessibility features in Google’s products

Microsoft Internet Explorer

• To change the font size, from the menu bar at the top of the browser window, select 'View' followed by 'Text size'. Within this secondary menu will be a variety of different text sizes from 'Small' to 'Largest'.

See more information on assistive technologies in Microsoft Windows

Mozilla Firefox

• Font size can be increased or decreased by holding down the [CTRL] key and pressing the [ + ] or [ - ] keys respectively.

See more information on accessibility features in Firefox

Web standards

This website has been developed to comply with the standards set by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Specifically, this website has been developed in accordance to the HTML 5 specification. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are used to control all presentation and layout elements ensuring all content is well structured and accessible via assistive devices.

This website takes advantage of advanced CSS technologies as defined in the CSS 3 specification. For older browsers with limited support of CSS 3 the website will adapt accordingly to ensure all content remains accessible.

Browser support

This website has been developed and tested across a variety of desktop, tablet and mobile browsers. Specifically, the following web browsers have been tested:

Apple iOS

• Safari 7 (iOS 7)
• Safari 6 (iOS 6)

​Apple Mac OS X

• Chrome 35
• Firefox 28
• Safari 7

Google Android

• Chrome

Microsoft Windows

• Chrome 35
• Firefox 28
• Internet Explorer 9, 10, 11

Feedback

We believe this to be an ongoing process, so if you have any comments or suggestions please use the form on the Contact us page.