We have tried to make our new site as usable as possible whilst also following standards and guidelines laid out by
the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in their Web Accessibility Initiative. This means that wherever possible, all of
our users enjoy the same quality of service.
Standards compliance
- Most pages on this site comply with all priority 1 and 2 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
- All other pages meet priority 1 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
- All pages validate as Transitional XHTML 1.0
- All style sheets used on this site is validated as CSS 2.1.
Visual design
- This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout, meaning greater usability for assistive technology.
- The site uses only relative font sizes, compatible with the
user-specified "text size" option in visual browsers.
- If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.
Links
Links have title attributes that describe the link in greater detail, unless the text of the link already fully describes
the target. If you are using a mouse, or other pointing device, these can be viewed by hovering over the link text.
Pop-up windows
The use of pop-up windows on this site has been kept to a minimum, but they always open in a new window.