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Accessibility

Every effort has been made to ensure the information this website provides is accessible to everyone.

    Valid HTML 4.01 Transitional

    Valid CSS!

    Level A conformance icon, W3C-WAI Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0

This site uses:

  • Valid HTML
  • Valid CSS
  • Conforms to W3C Level 1 Accesiblity Guidlines

Keyboard Navigation

In and efort to make navigation easier, Access Keys have been coded into these pages. Access keys are key combinations of the 'ALT' key and a specific character that select pre-defined page elements. When you have selected the link or element you may input a value or press enter.

Access Keys

  • ALT+A: Puts focus on this (Accessibility) page
  • ALT+S: Puts focus on the search Input box
  • ALT+T: Puts focus on a text-only version
  • ALT+.(dot): Selects the next page in the menu bar.
  • ALT+,(comma): Selects the previous page in the menu bar.

Alt Tags

Images used on this website contain 'ALT' tags. These tags provide an alternative textual description of the graphical content. This data is used by text-only browsers or text-readers.

Text Sizes

This page uses Relative Text Sizes. This means a user can change the text size by doing either of the following:

From the Browser Menu

  • View=>Text-size

Using a Wheel Mouse

  • CTRL+Down Scroll (Towards you): Increases the text size
  • CTRL+Up Scroll (Away from you): Decreases the text size

Overiding Page Settings

If you require to view these pages in a special mode, i.e High Contrast, Custom Style Sheet you may do the following:

In Internet Explorer 6

Select the following form the Browser Menu:

  • Tools => Internet Options =>Accessibility

Ensure the following check boxes are checked:

  • Ignore Colors Specified On Web Pages
  • Ignore Font Styles Specified On Web Pages
  • Ignore Font Sizes Specified On Web Pages

To use your own style sheet:

  • Check format documents using my style sheet
  • Specify the style sheet by typing in the input box or clickBrowse to open an 'open file' dialog box

To Apply these settings, click OK

In Firefox

Select the following form the Browser Menu:

  • Tools => Options =>Content
  • Under fonts and colours, Click the Advanced button
  • Un-check Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above
  • Click OK
  • Click the colours button from the Options window
  • Un-check Allow pages to choose their own colours, instead of my selections above
  • To Apply these settings, click OK

There is no option to use your own stylesheet in this browser.

Other Browsers

For other browser types, consult your browsers help guide.

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