We are committed to complying with the Disability Discrimination Act and have made significant improvements to our website in order to reduce the barriers experienced by people with disabilities.
By following Government guidelines, it is our policy to create pages to W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Priority 2 level (Double A).
We are aware, however, that occasionally we do make mistakes. If you find any of our pages inaccessible please use the Website Feedback Form to let us know. Please include details of the technology you are using and we will make every reasonable effort to either remove the barrier or provide the information in a format that you find acceptable.
Text Only
By selecting this option on the Accessibilty Tool Bar at the top of each web page you only see text on the screen, not any images.
Accessibility
By selecting this option on the Accessibilty Tool Bar at the top of each web page you will open up the Microsoft Accessibility otpions available which include a magnifier, narrator and on screen keyboard.
Widescreen
By selecting this option on the Accessibilty Tool Bar at the top of each web page the web pages are displayed in widescreen format.
AA Larger / Smaller
By selecting this option on the Accessibilty Tool Bar at the top of each web page you can alter the size of text to suit your needs.
Colour Scheme
By selecting this option on the Accessibilty Tool Bar at the top of each web page you can select the default of a white background with black text to a yellow background with black text.
Listen to the SIte
By selecting this option on the Accessibilty Tool Bar at the top of each web page the text on the pages are converted to speech.
Downloadable Documents
Where possible we try to provide downloadable documents in different formats including PDF and rich text format. If you have difficulties obtaining information from a PDF you can use Adobe's web-based conversion service to produce an HTML version. However, please be aware that the standard of HTML produced is not very good.
We appreciate that it is frustrating to be unable to access information. Please bear with us whilst we continue to work on improving the accessibility of our site.
If any downloadable document presents a barrier to accessing information, please contact us with details of the document in question, the problems encountered and what we could do to help.
