Accessibility

XHTML designers are committed to making creative work accessible to all and our aim has been to design a simple and clear website which is easy to use for all our user groups.

This is balanced against our desire to use latest design and technological features on the web to those who want them. Some applications in this website will use non-accessibility friendly technologies such as JavaScript, Cookies or non-optimised layouts.

Where possible alternatives have been provided and this is an area we are working hard to address over the coming development period. If you are having problems using or finding your way around the site, the following areas may help.

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.

Images

Every image throughout the site has been tagged with an ALT attribute. ALT allows alternative description to be given for each image. This allows both screen readers and browsers which don't display images to represent a substitute description.

Compliance

XHTML deisngers validates as compliant XHTML and CSS with the W3C.