Accessibility
This website has been built with the intention of being accessible to everyone by adhering to best practices governed by UK accessibility legislation and international accepted guidelines.
Standards Compliance
- Our pages comply with the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, and we meet priority levels 1 and 2.
- All pages validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict.
- Structured semantic markup is used on all pages.
Text
- Fonts used on this website are ‘relative’ so that you can resize them within your browser.
- Accessible html text has been used throughout this website including headings, subheadings, links and navigation.
- Links are written to make sense out of context.
Visual Design
- Cascading style sheets are used to display the visual content of the website, and if the style sheet is disabled, each page is still readable.
- All images used on this site have a descriptive ALT attribute and only decorative images have a null ALT attribute.
- LONGDESC attribute is used for only complex images to explain the significance of each image for non-visual browsers.
Browsers
This website can be viewed in any browser but has been specifically target tested on:
- PC
- Internet Explorer 6+
- Firefox 2+
- MAC
- Safari 3+
- Firefox 2+
Use of scripts
JavaScript is kept to a minimum throughout this website and if JavaScript is turned off or not supported in your browser the website can still be used without any restrictions. We only use jQuery for visual effects.
Send us feedback
If you have any questions or feedback on the accessibility of our website, feel free to contact us.