Our website has been designed to adhere to best practice by following W3C standards.
Pages have been built to comply with a minimum standard of WCAG 2.0 single ‘A’ guidelines. Wherever possible we aim to extend this to ‘AA’ and ‘AAA’ compliance.
There are a number of steps we have taken to address accessibility needs that are detailed below:
LAYOUT
The site uses Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to control all presentation and layout so that content is well structured and easily accessible via assistive devices.
FONTS
Text size can be increased or decreased in your browser by following these steps:
Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Choose the drop down menu at the top of the window of the browser marked “view”
- A list of options will appear in the drop down menu, choose “text size”
- Next another drop down menu should appear with options including “small”, “medium”, “large”, “largest”
- Select “largest”
Mozilla Firefox & Google Chrome
- Hold down the Ctrl button on your keyboard and press the plus (+) key
- You will find that this will enlarge the text, to enlarge again repeat the procedure
- Keep repeating until the text is enlarged to your requirements If you need to make the text smaller press Ctrl on your keyboard and the minus ( – ) key
Apple Safari
- Hold down the Apple Key and press the (+) key
- You will find that this will enlarge the text, to enlarge again repeat the procedure
- Keep repeating until the text is enlarged to your requirements
- If you need to make the text smaller press the Apple Key on your keyboard and press the (-) key