Accessibility

We are committed to making this website available to as many people as possible, meeting the requirements of the Disability Discrimination Act. Every effort has been made to ensure this website is accessible to those with special needs, including those with visual, hearing, cognitive and motor impairments.

We recognise that this is an important issue and ensure that this website is accessible in accordance with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) guidelines.

We have strived to make this website adhere to priority 1 and 2 guidelines and in some cases priority 3 as specified by the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 and endorsed by the Royal National Institute for the Blind.

All pages validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional, use structured semantic markup and fully validated Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

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.

Accessibility Design
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. Visitors can control the size of the text and keyboard navigation has been implemented (Access Keys). The site is free of frames and uses CSS for visual layout.

Access Keys
Most modern browsers support keyboard navigation through the use of 'access keys'. On Windows, press ALT + the access key and hit Enter. On Apple Mac systems, you press CTRL + the 'access' key.

The list of access keys is as follows:

[0] - Accessibility (Access Keys)
[1] - Home Page
[2] - Company Profile
[3] - Contact
[4] - Privacy
[6] - Sitemap

Links
External website links on the site will open a new browser window. Links have title attributes which describe the link in greater detail. In the majority of cases link text fully describes the target. Wherever possible, links are written to make sense out of context. Link text is never duplicated. Two links on the same page with the same link text always point to the same address.

Images
All content images on the site include descriptive ALT attributes.

Documents
Most documents on this website are in Portable Document Format (PDF). The advantage of this is consistent presentation of information. The free Adobe Acrobat Reader software is required to view PDF files. For those who cannot use the Adobe Acrobat Reader software, an online conversion tool is available on the Adobe Acrobat website.

Multimedia (Video and Audio)
We host a number of video clips on this site. These clips are provided in Flash Video Format suitable for a variety of different connection types and speeds. You will need to ensure you have Flash Player installed.

Javascript
The site has been designed to allow a full range of functionality without JavaScript enabled.

Known browser support
This website operates on a wide range of browsers.

PC operating systems:

• Internet Explorer 5.5, 6 and 7
• Firefox 1.5 and 2.0
• Netscape Navigator 7.0
• Opera 9.01
• Lynx

Apple Macintosh operating systems:

• Safari 1.3 and 2.0
• Firefox 1.5 and 2.0