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We are committed to making our site accessible to all.<\/p>\n
Accessibility Standards and this Website<\/strong><\/p>\n We are continuously improving this website to ensure that it meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines issued by the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). The WAI website content guidelines, published in 2008 by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), are the globally used and accepted standard for website accessibility, by both the corporate and public sector.<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/standards-guidelines\/wcag\/<\/a><\/p>\n This website is being continually developed in order to serve the largest possible audience, using the broadest range of systems and to consider any needs that users with disabilities might have.<\/p>\n Accessibility Help – Change the way this website looks – Using tools on your computer<\/p>\n You can control the look and functionality of this website, depending on your computer settings.<\/p>\n Most computers will have accessibility settings you can change including; the way the screen looks (e.g. changing; fonts, sizes, colours, etc), the way the keyboard or mouse works and possibly speaking and listening to commands as well as a range of other features.<\/p>\n As several organisations have already produced lots of very good content about how to make computers and websites more accessible, we have linked to these sites rather than duplicate their content.<\/p>\n My Web My Way<\/a>\u00a0produced by the BBC is a comprehensive site with loads of useful information and a wealth of\u00a0accessibility links<\/a><\/p>\n If you’re a regular computer users then in Windows – Click on the ‘Start’ button, then ‘Programs’, then ‘Accessories’, then ‘Accessibility’.<\/p>\n Your\u00a0browser\u00a0will usually have controls which you can use to enlarge the text on your screen.<\/p>\n To alter the font type and size<\/p>\n For improved visibility, our website allows you to increase (or decrease) the size of text and alter the choice of font, to suit your preferences.<\/p>\n All Browsers via mouse control<\/p>\n Internet Explorer Users You can also hold down CTRL and use the mouse wheel at the same time to almost infinitely change the text sizes on our website<\/p>\n Mozilla Firefox Users To alter the choice of font:<\/p>\n Internet Explorer Users<\/p>\n To alter the colour of text and background<\/p>\n You may find specific colours enable you to view our web site easier.<\/p>\n Internet Explorer Users<\/p>\n Hearing Impaired Users<\/p>\n We are currently looking at enabling Screen Readers to read our pages.<\/p>\n Downloadable files<\/p>\n Files have been made available to download in a variety of formats \u2013 the most common are Adobe Acrobat (.pdf), Microsoft Word (.doc and .docx) and Microsoft Excel (.xls and .xlsx). Reasonable adjustments have been made to ensure that digital publications available on our website are as accessible as possible. If you need any document in a different format,\u00a0 please contact us.<\/p>\n You may need to download\u00a0Adobe Reader<\/a>\u00a0to view files in PDF format. The latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader has incorporated accessibility features. For example, you can hear a PDF document read aloud or scroll a PDF document automatically. You can access these features in the Edit Preferences menu.<\/p>\n
To alter the size of the text on this website, select \u2018View\u2019 (found on the menu bar across the top of your browser), then Text Size, and then your preferred size.<\/p>\n
Use the mouse wheel (or hold down CTRL and use + key to increase font) to change the text sizes on our website.<\/p>\n\n
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