We are committed to ensuring that our website is accessible to all and we have aimed to make this site adhere to W3C WAI Level 1 throughout the site.

In order to validate our code, we have used Bobby 5.0.

"Bobby is a comprehensive web accessibility software tool designed to help expose and repair barriers to accessibility and encourage compliance with existing accessibility guidelines. Bobby tests for compliance with government standards, including the U.S. Government's Section 508. It offers prioritized suggestions based on the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines provided by the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Web Access Initiative. Bobby allows developers to test web pages and generate summary reports highlighting critical accessibility issues before posting content to live servers."

As part of the design process we:

• Ensure that navigation throughout the site works in a consistent way.
• Never use colour as the only way to convey information
• Use a standard web font to make it easy for all to read.
• In most cases, the size of the font can be adjusted according to the users needs, using standard browser and operating system options.

Changing font size

This website has been designed to enable you to make the font smaller or larger using the settings on your browser.

To increase the size of fonts on Internet Explorer, View > Text Size.
To increase the size of fonts on Netscape Navigator, View > Increase Font, or use the keyboard shortcut by pressing Control and ].
To increase the size of fonts on Opera, View > Preferences > Fonts and change Minimum Font Size (pixels).

We will update this page when we have more news.

Plugins

This site utilises Macromedia Flash in some places, if you cannot see the flash movies you can download the player from the Macromedia website.

Get Flash Player

We also use PDF's in places as a standard downloadable document. If you require the latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader, you can get a copy from the Adobe Website.

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Readers

Some of the documents/media in this site may require the following readers/viewers - please note that these links are placed here only for your convenience only and not as an endorsement of either product or software.

Microsoft Word 97 to 2000 Viewer

Word reader for Linux

Microsoft PowerPoint 97 to 2002 Viewer

Adobe Acrobat Reader