Accessibility
We are committed to making our website accessible to as many different people as possible. The site aims to be compliant with worldwide standards for accessibility. We believe that making our site accessible improves the visitor experience for all.
Steps we’ve taken
Here’s some of the steps we’ve taken to ensure accessible web pages:
- Using alt tags on images
- Using sufficient contrast on colours
- Using CSS to allow the separation of style and content
- Providing alternative content where page elements are not accessible/unsupported
- Publishing pages generated from valid HTML templates
- Communicating best practice to all web editors, encouraging the use of appropriate headings and clearly labelled links
Adjusting text size
The size of the text on this site can be increased or decreased. To do this, adjust your browser’s settings by going to the Tools menu, then select ‘text size’ or ‘text zoom’ or ‘zoom’ and increase the size of the text. Alternatively:
- On Microsoft Internet Explorer hold Alt + V then press X followed by Return (Enter)
- On Firefox hold Ctrl then use the plus and minus keys to adjust the font size
- On Chrome hold Ctrl and then use the plus and minus keys to adjust the font size
- On Opera use the plus and minus keys to increase and decrease the font size