We believe that websites should be accessible by everyone. This site has been designed with accessibility in mind and is rated W3C WAI Priority 2 level.

We welcome suggestions from visitors of the site. If you have any suggestions or find our site problematic in relation to accessibility please contact us.

Browser Settings

Many of today’s browsers allow you to change the way in which you view

websites, including

• Changing the default size of the screen text
• Turning off colours
• Turning off font styles and sizes, and
• Applying your own style sheet

To change the text size in Internet Explorer v.6

• From the menu bar, select View
• From the View menu, select Text Size
• Select your choice of ‘Largest’, ‘Larger’, ‘Medium’, ‘Smaller’, ‘Smallest’ textsizes

To change the text size in Internet Explorer v.7

• Select the Page menu.
• Point to Text Size.
• Select your choice of ‘Largest’, ‘Larger’, ‘Medium’, ‘Smaller’, ‘Smallest’text sizes.

To change the text size in Mozilla Firefox 1.5/2

• Select the View menu.
• Point to Text Size.
• Select ‘Increase’ or ‘Decrease’

To change the text size in Safari

• Select the View menu.
• Select ‘Make text bigger’ or ‘Make text smaller’

Downloading documents in PDF format

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.

Browser Compatibility

The standard support browser versions are:

• Internet Explorer 6.0+
• Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox versions 2 onwards
• Safari and Firefox on Mac OS X

Accessibility references

1. W3 accessibility guidelines, which explains the reasons behind each guideline.
2. W3 accessibility techniques, which explains how to implement each guideline.
3. W3 accessibility checklist, a busy developer’s guide to accessibility.

Accessibility software

1. JAWS, a screen reader for Windows. A time-limited, downloadable demo is available.
2. Home Page Reader, a screen reader for Windows. A downloadable demo is available.
3. Lynx, a free text-only web browser for blind users with refreshable Braille displays.
4. Links, a free text-only web browser for visual users with low bandwidth.
5. Opera, a visual browser with many accessibility-related features, including text zooming, user stylesheets, image toggle. A free downloadable version is available. Compatible with Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and several other operating systems.

Accessibility services

1. Bobby, a free service to analyze web pages for compliance to accessibility guidelines. A full-featured commercial version is also available.
2. HTML Validator, a free service for checking that web pages conform to published HTML standards.
3. Web Page Backward Compatibility Viewer, a tool for viewing your web pages without a variety of modern browser features.
4. Lynx Viewer, a free service for viewing what your web pages would look like in Lynx.