Accessibility policy

This website is compliant with the W3C guidelines on accessibility and uses XHTML1 transitional and CSS 2.0. If you have any problem in accessing information on this platform, please contact us.

Text only and printer friendly versions

Although we have aimed to make our web site as accessible as possible we have also provided additional text only and printer friendly options (top right corner). For a better print, please choose a landscape format.

To permanently apply font and colour changes

On the browser Tools menu select 'Internet Options'
On the General tab, select 'Accessibility'
Click on the three boxes to show ticks
Click on 'OK'

To enlarge text

Please use the text version (top right corner link)
On the browser Tools menu select 'Internet Options'
On the General tab, select 'Accessibility'
Tick the 'Ignore font sizes specified on web pages' check box
Click on 'OK'
On the browser menu select 'view'
Click 'text size'
Choose the size of text

To change text and background colour

On the browser Tools menu select 'Internet Options'
On the General tab, select 'Colour'
Deselect the 'Use Windows Colours' tick box
Select the box next to 'Text' and choose a colour
Click on 'OK
'Select the box next to 'Background' and choose a colour
Click on 'OK'

To prevent graphics and images appearing

On the browser Tools menu select 'Internet Options'
On the Advanced tab, scroll down to the 'Multimedia' heading
Deselect the graphics options 'animations', 'videos', 'pictures' and 'images'
by clicking on the boxes to remove the ticks
Click on 'Apply' then 'OK'

To change the size of the window

On the browser View menu select 'Full screen' or press F11

To change the colour of links displayed on a screen

On the browser Tools menu select 'Internet Options'
On the General tab, select 'Accessibility'
Click on 'Select ignore colours specified on Web pages' (should contain a tick)
Click 'OK'

Other options

Other options such as removing animation or JavaScript are available:
On the browser Tools menu select 'Internet Options'
On the Advanced tab choose any of the options available to improve the visibility of the web pages.

Other Browsers

The guidelines provided here are for Internet Explorer. There are options to change the way pages are displayed on other browsers. Please refer to your browser's help or information section for details.

Images

Images have been used to add interest to the site. These images have been kept as small as possible and should load quickly. Each image is accompanied by an Alternative Text or "ALT" tag which provides a description of an image or a function. ALT tags are accessed by placing your mouse over the image.

JavaScript

Our menus use JavaScript. However JavaScript is not necessary and can be disabled. Alternative static links are provided in each section. See how to disable JavaScript above under 'Other options'.

Plug-in

Some reports available on this web site have been created in Adobe Acrobat PDF (Portable Format Document) format. To view these documents you will need to download Acrobat Reader. You can get this from Adobe's web site: www.adobe.com