Accessibility
Our position explained

Our aim is to ensure that this website is accessible to the widest possible range of people. We are actively working to increase the accessibility and usability of our website and in doing so we follow published standards and guidance.

If you have any questions or comments, please contact us. This accessibility statement records the main steps that we took to accommodate the widest range of visitors:

Standards compliance
The pages on this website were built to comply with a minimum standard of WCAG AA, complying with all priority A and AA guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

The pages on this site were tested using the W3C Markup Validation Service, and comply with the guidelines on which this is based.

All pages were validated as XHTML 1.0 Transitional.

All pages use structured semantic markup. H1 tags are used for main titles, H2, H3 and H4 tags for subtitles.

Navigation aids
All pages contain a link to the home page, and the menu system was constructed in a consistent fashion throughout the website.

The additional breadcrumb navigation system is designed to reinforce awareness of the location of the page that is being viewed within the website, and to increase overall access to all of the information that is available.

Hyperlinks
Many hyperlinks have title attributes, which describe the hyperlink in greater detail. Hyperlinks are written to make sense out of context.

Images
All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics include empty ALT attributes. Complex images include inline descriptions to explain the significance of each image to non-visual readers.

Visual design
This site 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 (old browsers will display the page without CSS).

Fonts
This site uses only relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified "text size" option in visual browsers.

Some visually impaired web users need to take further steps to make websites visible. Internet Explorer and many other browsers enable you to specify your own Cascading Style Sheet that will override the styling of the websites that you view. This will give you full control of the visual appearance of the text in websites. You can find out more about specifying your own CSS file by using the Help function within your web browser software