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Accessibility Statement

Standards Compliance

In designing this site, we have used technologies which form a common standard. By designing to what are known as web standards, the content of this website is made available to a wider range of people and technologies.

We have ensured that we have met or we exceed the requirements of both the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) and Section 508 of the American Workforce Investment Act of 1998. We strive to obey the spirit of the UK Disability Discrimination Act 1995 with respect to the provision of services online, as required by the Disability Rights Commission. We aim to make all our pages validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional and use structured semantic mark-up.

Accessible Design

While we know that it is desirable to design a site that everyone can use, designing this site with accessibility in mind means that more people can access its content.
Many internet users with disabilities find websites difficult or even impossible to use simply because of the way they are designed. This website has been designed to be as accessible as possible and to be compatible with the types of adaptive technology used by people with disabilities, including screen readers.

Accessibility is not simply about creating web content that is available to the disabled. Designing with accessibility in mind enables web site content to be available to the largest possible number of readers, visitors or customers, regardless of disability or the type of access technology used. Agencies providing accessible information and services online are open to a wider range of customers.

Cascading Style Sheets

CSS, short for Cascading Style Sheets, a new feature being added to HTML that gives both website developers and users more control over how pages are displayed. With CSS, designers and users can create style sheets that define how different elements, such as headers and links, appear. These style sheets can then be applied to any web page.

Resizable Fonts

The text is equivalent to 12pt and in Arial or Helvetica. You may change the font size of this document to your preference through your browser.

In Internet Explorer, select View, then Text Size, and then your preferred size.

In Netscape select View, then Text Zoom, and then your preferred percentage size.

In Safari select view then Make Text Bigger.

Downloading Portable Document Format (PDF) Files

Documents marked PDF are saved in Portable Document Format (PDF). To read them you will need a copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader. The Acrobat Reader software is available for downloading free of charge here: www.adobe.co.uk

Viewers with visual difficulties may find it useful to investigate services provided by Adobe to improve the accessibility of Adobe Acrobat documents here: http://access.adobe.com

Browser Compatibility

The site has been optimised for Internet Explorer 5.5 and above,  Netscape 6, Firefox 2 and Safari 2.0.4.

It is recommended that you keep your preferred Browser as up to date as possible.

The 2 logos below show that the pages and cascading style sheets used throughout the site are compliant with W3C accessibility standard.