We are committed to ensuring everyone can access our website, including people with sight problems, hearing, mobility and cognitive impairments as well as users with dial-up, older browsers or newer technologies such as mobiles and PDAs.We welcome any comments or suggestions you'd like to offer. Please use the contact form on the website to get in touch.
Standards we work towards
As an organisation we have committed ourselves to working towards specific standards to ensure a high level of accessibility. We aim to ensure that all pages of our website are written with valid XHTML, and use valid CSS to style each page.
We also validate our pages against the World-Wide Web Consortium's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 1.0. These guidelines offer 3 levels of priority, and we ensure that all of our pages are accessible to all priority 1 and 2 guidelines. Where possible we also try to attain priority 3 guidelines, but in some cases these are extremely difficult to achieve.
Further details of the above guidelines are available from the World-Wide Web Consortium's website.
Speech enabled
You can listen to the contents of this site being read aloud to you by downloading a free piece of software from Browsealoud.
Once the software is installed on your computer, you can choose to listen to the content of web pages and files such as pdf documents on this and other Browsealoud-enabled sites being read to you.
The service is designed to improve access to information and services on our website for people who find it hard to read. This includes people with dyslexia or mild visual impairments and those who do not speak English as their first language.
Further details on how to access Browsealoud and download it for free are available at www.browsealoud.com.