Accessibility
General viewing
Our website has been designed to be accessible to as many people as possible. Accessibility is an ongoing aspect that we'll continually develop.
We aim to conform to the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C's) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, to a double-A level.
This website uses Hyper Text Mark-up Language (HTML5) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS3), and has been designed to be best viewed on a screen size of 1024 x 768.
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines on W3C website
Browsers
We have made sure that this website works on all common browsers, progressively enhancing the visual content from older to newer browsers. We have tested it thoroughly on the following platforms / browsers:
- Safari 5.0 (Mac)
- Mozilla Firefox 3.6
- Mozilla Firefox 5.0
- Internet Explorer 6
- Internet Explorer 7
- Internet Explorer 8
- Internet Explorer 9
- Internet Explorer 10
- Google Chrome 12.0
Document downloads
Throughout this site we may link to PDFs and Microsoft Word and Excel documents. We aim to make sure that all document downloads are clearly marked as such and also display the file size.
PDF documents
A number of documents are in PDF format and are marked with this icon:
To open PDF documents, you must have Adobe Reader installed on your machine. Adobe Reader is free and easy to use.
Download free version of Adobe Reader on Adobe website.
Microsoft Word documents
Some documents on this site are in Microsoft Word format and are marked with this icon:
To view these documents you can use Microsoft Word, or you can also download a free MS Word Viewer.
Download free version of Word Viewer on Microsoft website.
Microsoft Excel documents
Some documents on this site are in Microsoft Excel format and are marked with this icon:
To view these documents you can use Microsoft Excel, or you can also download a free MS Excel Viewer.
Download free version of Excel Viewer on Microsoft website.
Useful links to information about accessibility
Web Access Centre on Royal National Institute of Blind People website.