Web Site Accessibility - Its Everything
In 1999 the Web Accessibility Initiative, a project by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), published the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines WCAG 1.0.
In recent years, these have been widely accepted as the definitive guidelines on how to create accessible websites.
On 11 December 2008, the WAI released the WCAG 2.0 as a Recommendation. WCAG 2.0 aims to be up to date and more technology neutral.
Our Website Accessibility Statement
We are committed to making our websites accessible to all. We strive to work to deliver outstanding sites that everyone can enjoy.
Accessibility Features
To make this website accessible to all, we have included the following functionality:
Adjustable text size
The size of body text on our site can be determined by the user. There are two ways to do this:
- In Internet Explorer
- Select the View menu, then Text Size, then a setting from the list of five sizes.
- In FireFox
- Select the View menu, then Text Size, then either Increase or Decrease from the menu list.
- In Safari
- Select the View menu, then either Make Text Bigger or Make Text Smaller.
- In all browsers
- Holding down the CTRL button and scrolling the mouse-wheel up and down will adjust text size accordingly.
- Keyboard navigation
Navigating around websites is possible without the mouse. The following keyboard commands are active:- TAB - to cycle forwards through links.
- SHIFT + TAB - to cycle backwards though links.
- ENTER - to select a highlighted link.
