Accessibility

The website has been designed to be as accessible to as many users as possible, the pages can be used at at any screen resolution.

The World Wide Web Consortium's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (or WCAG) is a set of accessibility guidelines created by the Web Accessibility Initiative of the W3C. Our aim is to ensure this site complies with Priority 2 level of the W3C Guidelines. Until now, the huge potential of the internet has been 'off limits' to visually impaired computer users who struggle to find websites which are compatible with screen readers and other access technology. Now we are opening up the rich resources of the internet by providing a fully accessible website.

This site has been approved by the National Library for the Blind for inclusion on the www.a-sites.org portal of accessible websites for visually impaired people.

Controlling text and colours in your web browser

You can specify the font sizes, styles and colours, and foreground and background colours of Web pages displayed on your computer screen, even if the author of the Web page has already specified these. You can also specify the colour used to indicate links in Web pages, or a special colour for links that is used only when the mouse passes over the link. This is useful if you have low vision, need larger fonts, or need high-contrast colours. You can set Internet Explorer to use the colours and fonts you specify, your default Windows colours and fonts, or the settings you specify in your own style sheet.