Accessibility
It is estimated that around 16 million people in the UK have a disability (Department for Work and Pensions, Family Resources Survey, 2021–22).
We are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of technology or ability.
The following features are designed to improve accessibility for users with disabilities:
- This website endeavours to conform to level AA of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
- This site has been built using code compliant with W3C standards for XHTML and CSS. The site displays correctly in current browsers and using standards compliant XHTML/CSS code means any future browsers will also display it correctly.
- Tab indexes are set such that the content links are presented first in the sequence they appear on the page
- Navigation items have background changes to highlight links and current page
- Links to external web sites open up a new browser window where this is supported by the browser otherwise the same browser window is used
- This web site can be navigated without the use of a mouse
- All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes
- Content has been separated from visual design and cascading style sheets (CSS) are used for visual layout
- Only relative font sizes, compatible with the user specified “text size” option in visual browsers are used
- If your browser or browsing device does not support style sheets at all, the content of each page is still readable
From time to time it is necessary to carry out changes and developments to areas of the website, unfortunately during these times these areas may not fully conform to the accessibility guidelines outlined above.
If you should experience any difficulty in accessing any area of the website, please don’t hesitate to contact us outlining the exact nature of the problem and your contact details.