We are working towards complying with Priority 2 of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. We are continually making improvements to meet these guidelines, and our website has been designed with the following accessibility guidelines in mind:
* Our pages are designed so that they can be viewed at a screen resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels
* Page structure is conveyed using header elements
* A stylesheet is used on our website and relative font sizes on all text, with the exception of graphical text
* Text can be increased or decreased in size by using the ‘view’ option in your PC browser, or using the key combination ‘Cmd+Plus’ or ‘Cmd+Minus’ on a Mac
* Images that convey important information have alternative text. Where an image is used for a decorative purpose, the alternative text will be left blank
* No information is exclusively conveyed using colour
* A site map is available to provide information about the layout of the website
To read PDF documents with a screen reader, please link to the Access Adobe website which provides useful tools and resources. Adobe also has a free online conversion tool for PDFs.
The standard supported browser versions (on Windows platforms only (NT4, 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP) are Internet Explorer v6.0, Firefox v1.5 and Netscape 6.2+
This site supports the following standard Mac browser versions:
To learn more about web accessibility, visit the RNIB Web Access Centre. Click here to obtain a copy of the screen reader JAWS for Windows.
If you have difficulty accessing the site or have any comments or feedback, please do not hesitate to get in touch.
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