Accessibility

Our site has been developed to work with all modern browsers and be accessible and usable to visitors.

Our site:

adheres as to The World Wide Web Consortium W3C A Web content where possible
complies with best practice for accessibility and The Equality Act for web accessibility
complies with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0
uses standard coding technologies HTML 5 and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS3) for site styling, layout and design and ensure consistency of the design across browsers
provides text to accompany non-text elements (such as pictures or graphical buttons for navigating)
has document organisation for sensibly ordered readability without the need for the accompanying style sheets
makes sure all information conveyed through coloured content can be inferred or is available without colour
uses clear and simple labelling for the websites content
clearly delineating changes in the natural text of the document to other content
the foreground and background colours have sufficient contrast for those who struggle with differentiating colours
uses an appropriate mark-up language rather than images to convey information
uses header elements to convey structure
uses style sheets to control the layout and presentation
clearly identifies the target of each link
uses a sitemap to provide further information about layout
uses navigation mechanisms in a consistent manner
provides metadata to add semantic information to web pages
divides large blocks of information into more manageable blocks when possible.