Accessibility

We aim to make this website as accessible as possible for all users. If you have any problems using this site, or can suggest a way to improve it, please either send us your comments using our Feedback page, or email us.

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In designing this site, we have incorporated the following features with the intention of improving the site's accessibility:

1. Resizable text

All text can be resized using your browser. Alternatively, the page can be zoomed using your browser, which is the simplest way to make text larger in Internet Explorer 7 and recent versions of Firefox.

Zooming or resizing text in popular browsers

2. Keyboard navigation

This website does not modify the normal process of keyboard navigation (it does not provide keyboard shortcuts, or change the natural tab order of pages).

Tip: most users will find it easier to use the keyboard at certain times, particularly when filling in a form.

Navigating with the keyboard in popular browsers

3. Hidden text and links

If you listen to websites, a small amount of extra text is provided to help you to make sense of the content. If you navigate with the keyboard, there are extra links to help you. Anyone who wishes to see this extra text and links, or who would prefer to view a low-graphics version of the site, can do so by viewing the page without style sheets.

Disabling style sheets in popular browsers

Zooming or resizing text

Internet Explorer 6

Go to the 'View' menu (hold down 'Alt' and press 'V') and choose 'Text size'.

Internet Explorer 7

It is easier to zoom the page: hold down the 'Ctrl' key and press '+' or ' -'. But it is often more effective to resize the text: go to the 'Page' menu (hold down 'Alt' and press 'P') and choose 'Text size'.

Firefox

Hold down the 'Ctrl' key (Windows) or Apple key (Macintosh) and press '+' or ' -' to make text larger and smaller - or in recent versions, to zoom in and out - and press '0' to return to normal size.

Safari

Hold down the Apple key and press '+' or ' -' to make text larger and smaller, and press '0' to return to normal size.

Navigating with the keyboard

Internet Explorer and Firefox on Windows

Use the 'Tab' key to move from link to link. Hold 'Shift' and press 'Tab' to move backwards. Press 'Return' or 'Enter' to activate a link.

In a form... use the 'Tab' key to move from field to field. With 'radio buttons', use the up and down arrow keys to choose your preferred option. With checkboxes, press the space bar to check an option. To activate a submit button, press 'Return' or 'Enter'.

Firefox on Macintosh

As for Windows above.

Safari on Macintosh

Hold down 'Alt' and use the 'Tab' key to move from link to link. Hold 'Shift' and 'Alt' and press 'Tab' to move backwards. Press 'Return' or 'Enter' to activate a link.

In a form... use the 'Tab' key to move from field to field (it does not matter if you also hold down 'Alt'). With 'radio buttons', use the up and down arrow keys to choose your preferred option. With checkboxes, press the space bar to check an option. To activate a submit button, press 'Return' or 'Enter'.

Disabling style sheets

Internet Explorer

In the 'Tools' menu, choose 'Internet options...' and in the 'General' section, choose 'Accessibility'. You can now select your own style sheet, or you can tick the boxes to ignore a website's specified colours, font styles and font sizes. Note that disabling colours, font styles and font sizes does not disable layout, so hidden text will remain hidden from view.

Firefox

In the 'View' menu, go to 'Page Style' and choose 'No Style'.

Safari

In 'Preferences', go to 'Advanced'. Here you can select your own style sheet. To disable style sheets, tick 'Show Develop menu in menu bar', then in the 'Develop' menu, choose 'Disable Styles'.