Accessibility statement

"The power of the web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect." - Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web.

The team behind this website hope that whoever needs to use it, can do so easily.

If you do have problems, or would like to make any suggestions to improve the site from an accessibility point of view, please get in touch with us. Talk to us about the problem and we will listen. 

Readability

We have made every effort to ensure this web site is easily readable using 'plain English'. In addition, we have ensured that the design of this web site is not an obstacle to its usability and readability.

The 'Text Only' option provides a plain text alternative to every page on this web site. In addition, we have minimised the use of Javascript to almost zero, to ensure that all browsing media and devices are able to access the information on this site with ease.

The site is also designed to be easily printable - providing a simple, text based output onto paper.

Access for visually impaired visitors to our website

If you are visually impaired you can get some software from Adobe to help you to read Adobe Acrobatdocuments (PDFs). Go to http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/alternate.html to download the free software.

Once the software is installed, you need to turn off your web browser integration. To do this open Acrobat Reader, go to file > preferences > general and turn off the web browser integration.

Once you have done this, when you download a pdf file all you have to do is go to view > Acrobat access choices click on access view only, or as a shortcut, use ctrl 4.

The text in the PDF will be changed into a format your software can read.