Accessibility

We are committed to making our resources available to everyone, including those who may have difficulties using mainstream Information Technology. As such, this web site has been designed in accordance with guidelines published by the World Wide Web Consortium, ensuring general good practice in web design, and also providing compliance with the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.

Following these guidelines, we use presentation technologies to ensure that our site is accessible not only to people using standard web browsers, but also to those using other user agents, such as large-text or speech browsers.

This web site has been validated as complying with the XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS standards.

In many areas of the site we have met the requirements for Triple-A compliance with the Accessibility Guidelines set out by the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative. Across the site as a whole, we claim Level A compliance with the guidelines. If you have any comments on the accessibility of this site, please e-mail us via the contact page.

Our statement of compliance explains the measures we have taken to follow the WAI guidelines.