Accessibility policy
This website has been designed to be as accessible as possible and to be compatible with W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 – Level A conformance. As such visitors can control the size of the text, the colours and the stylesheets.
Font sizes
To increase or decrease the text size of the website use the text enlargement tool in the top right hand corner of every page. Click the large A to increase the size and click the small A to decrease the size.
Alternatively the text size can be adjusted in the browser settings as follows:
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 you want
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”
Stylesheets
You may import your own stylesheet into this website.
On the browser Tools menu select “Internet Options”
On the General tab, select “Accessibility”
Deselect any or all of the three checkboxes to ignore colours, font styles or font sizes.
Select the “Format document using my style sheet” checkbox then browse to your stylesheet and 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” and 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 on “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.