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Accessibility

We wish for all people to have access to our websites. Our websites are designed with the intention of making the content accessible to the widest range of visitors. To achieve this we adhere to best practices, such as compliance with W3C standards; and by careful reference to the standards set out by other organisations to improve access for everyone.

Standards compliance

Standards compliance is important to us. Our websites are built to comply with a minimum standard of WCAG AA. As part of our Standards compliance efforts, all web pages validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional. The website design is structured to use semantic markup. H1 tags are used for main titles, H2, H3 and H4 tags for subtitles.

Navigation aids

All web pages contain links to home pages, and menu systems are designed in a consistent fashion throughout our websites to increase overall access to all of the information that is available.

Links

Many links have title attributes, which describe the link in greater detail. Links are written to make sense out of context. All links linking to web pages within our websites open in the existing window. Some links, linking to external website pages open in new windows.

Fonts

Our websites use font sizes compatible with user specified text size option in visual browsers. Many website visitors with impaired vision need to increase the font size from the default Medium setting to Larger or Largest.

Visual design

This web site design uses cascading style sheets for visual layout. If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.

Images

All images used in our websites include descriptive ALT attributes and/or TITLE attributes to explain the significance of each image to non-visual readers and to give further information on the image.