ACCESSIBILITY STATEMENT

Standards compliance

1. All pages on this site are Bobby AA approved.
2. All pages on this site are WCAG AA approved.
3. All pages on this site validate as HTML 4.0 Transitional.
4. All pages on this site use structured semantic markup.

Navigation aids

1. All pages have rel=previous, next, up, and home links to aid navigation in text-only browsers. Netscape 6 and Mozilla users can also take advantage of this feature by selecting the View menu, Show/Hide, Site Navigation Bar, Show Only As Needed (or Show Always).

Links

1. Links have title attributes which describe the link in greater detail, unless the text of the link already fully describes the target.
2. Links are written to make sense out of context.

Images

1. All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics include null ALT attributes.
2. Complex images include LONGDESC attributes or inline descriptions to explain the significance of each image to non-visual readers.

Visual design

I. This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.
2. This site doesn't use frames.
3. This site uses only relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified "text size" option in visual browsers.
4. If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.

Hosted documents

1. Wherever possible, documents hosted on this site will be presented in an accessible fashion.
2. While proprietary formats, such as Microsoft Word, are often available, most documents are also available either in Rich Text Format (RTF) or Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML).
3. We will endeavour to keep Portable Document Format (PDF) documents to a minimum. When PDF documents are hosted on the site we will provide information about downloading Adobe Acrobat Reader and point to their online conversion feature. http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_onlinetools.html

Pop-up windows and linking to other sites

1. Most links activated throughout the site will open in your current browser window.
2. Pop-up windows are only used to display rich media. To overcome to overcome any confusion caused by change of focus we always inform the user if a link will open in a new window.
3. We can take no responsibility for the content of external internet sites but please contact us if we link to anything unsuitable, incorrect or inaccessible.

Access keys

We have made restricted use of accesskeys (see note below). Where used this site complies with the UK Government Access Keys Standard.' To use the access keys with Internet Explorer and navigate using only the keyboard, press the 'Alt' key and any of the keys below simultaneously, then press 'Enter'.

Note: Although accesskeys may eventually allow improved keyboard accessibility and usability of web sites, browser implementation and consistency issues in the current environment leaves a lot to be desired. It is highly likely that whatever implementation method is used, a subset of users will find them problematic where the access keys conflict with their browser or assistive technology's shortcut keys.

At the current point in time, accesskeys should therefore be seen as a relatively low priority accessibility feature.

http://www.dmag.org.uk/resources/design_articles/accesskeys.asp