accessibility
making our website open to all
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accessibility statement
We are fully committed to making our services accessible to everyone, and that is as true for our website as it is for everything else.
As such, we have incorporated a number of features designed to assist navigation through the site both to partially sighted users and those who wish to navigate without the use of a mouse.
The site is built using cascading style sheets to create the visual layout, but if your browser does not support them, or they are disabled, the content of each page will still be visible.
All images and animations on the site have alternative descriptions; non-illustrative images (for example, spacers) have blank alternatives so they can still be distinguised from important content.
If you encounter any problems accessing the site, please contact us, and we will do everything we can to assist you.
access keys
Keyboard shortcuts known as Access Keys have been included in this website to assist navigation without a mouse. They can be used from any page in the site, and are listed below:
- 1 = home
- 2 = news
- 3 = site map
- 4 = profile
- 5 = ethics
- 6 = login
- 8 = copyright
- 9 = contact us
- 0 = accessibility
- q = web
- w = design
- e = photography
- r = photo albums
- t = top of page
- p = print page
- x = text only
- p = print page
You can use the access keys as follows:
Internet Explorer 5+ (PC): press and hold ALT and select the appropriate number/letter, then press enter
Netscape 6+ (PC): press and hold ALT and select the appropriate number/letter
Mozilla / Firefox (PC): press and hold ALT and select the appropriate number/letter
Internet Explorer 5+ (Mac): press and hold CTRL and select the appropriate number/letter
Netscape 6+ (Mac): press and hold CTRL and select the appropriate number/letter
Mozilla / Firefox (Mac): press and hold CTRL and select the appropriate number/letter
Safari (Mac): OSX allows full keyboard access shortcuts to access and select buttons and menus in Safari. To find
out how, click this link (this will open a page from the Apple website).
text only version
A text-only version of this site is also available for those who may find viewing the graphic version difficult. This can be accessed on ony page either by using the appropriate access key (x) or by clicking the link on the footer bar.
To change to the text-only version of the site now, click this link.
alternative font sizes
You can increase (or decrease) the size of the text on this site using the controls built into your browser.
To change size on a PC, press and hold CTRL and then + to increase the size or - to reduce it.
On a Mac, press and hold CMD and then + or -
If you are using Internet Explorer, you need to go to the 'View' menu, then 'Text Size' and then select the appropriate option.
browser support & markup validation
This website has been tested on a wide variety of browsers on PCs running Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintoshes running OSX. While results may be unpredicatable on some older platforms, the main content of the page will be visible on any Standards-compliant browser.
The code in this website conforms to the W3C markup validation requirements for both XHTML1 and CSS, and the site has been built to conform to Level AAA of the W3c-WAI Web Content Accessibility Standards. Incidentally, the site also conforms to the American Section 508 regulations, one of the most stringent tests of website accessibility. (Select one of the links below to confirm.)
