Accessibility

This site conforms to AA standards, as outlined by the WAI.

For more information about these standards please go to http://www.w3.org/WAI/

Tab Key

You can use the Tab key on your keyboard to move between links on a page. A single press of Tabhigh-lights the next link, shift+Tab high-lights the previous link.

Browser text-sizing tool

Most popular browsers feature a text resizing function.

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With this tool you can resize text on screen to a level you feel comfortable with. Just click on the icon, and select a new size.

This tool is also available in the menu of various browsers as follows:

  • Firefox: view > text size
  • Internet Explorer 5, 5.5, 6, 7: view > text size
  • Netscape 6, 7, Mozilla: view > text zoom
  • Opera 7, 8: view > zoom
  • Safari: view > make text bigger / smaller
  • Camino: view > bigger text / smaller text
  • Internet Explorer 5 for Mac: view > text zoom

Display of this site in older browsers

To allow access to as diverse an audience as possible, this website is built using techniques supported by Web Standards. Many of the features which we have used to improve accessibility are unfortunately not supported in certain older, non standards-compliant browsers. To take full advantage of the features on this, and many other sites across the web, we recommend that you upgrade to a standards compliant browser.

If you'd like to upgrade you can find a list of the most popular and secure standards-supporting browsers here, all of which are free to download.

You can read more about web standards here.

Printing

If you need to print any other page in this site you'll find that your browser's Print function works perfectly well.

Some sites will only print some of the text on a page, or will output cropped pages when you try to print them, but this site has been tailored to print correctly.

Choose file > print preview in your browser's menu to see for yourself. You'll notice that to improve clarity, none of the navigation objects or other elements which are superfluous to a printed version will be printed.