Accessibility

It is important to us that this website is accessible to all, reflecting our philosophy and the standards and guidelines set out in the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

The UK Disability Discrimination Act 1995 has bought about changes in legislation resulting in the need for companies to adhere to accessibility issues.

We have provided a range of tools in order for our website to be accessible-

Changing Font size - font size may be altered to suit your visual needs.

Changing Text format - The correct colour combination can have an enormous effect on the legibility of text and can aid a wide variety of difficulties. For people who need text to appear as clearly and boldly as possible, combinations like yellow-on-black or white-on-black can yield good results.

Read this page - enables the information to be read to individuals with visual impairments and literacy issues.

Alternative Text for Images - the information is available to everyone, to people with visual impairments, people who turned off images on their mobile phone to lower bandwidth charges, people in a rural area with low bandwidth who turned off images to speed download, and others. It's also available to technologies that cannot see the image, such as search engines.

Key board input - An accessible website does not rely on the mouse; it provides all functionality via a keyboard. Then people with disabilities can use assistive technologies that mimic the keyboard, such as speech input.

Transcripts of Audio Files - Providing a text transcript makes the audio information accessible to people who are deaf or hard of hearing, as well as to search engines and other technologies that can't hear.