Accessibility

We strive to make our site accessible to all users – if you spot a particular problem that you think we should know about please contact us.

The Disability Discrimination Act

TheW3C guidelines are widely regarded as an acceptable benchmark forshowing that a company has taken steps to make their site accessible. W3C's 'Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0', are available at http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WAI-WEBCONTENT-19990505

We have taken reasonable measures to ensure that our pages conform to Level AA (EU recommended level).

Examples of features we have on this site:

  • validated markup
  • meaningful ALT text for any image icons
  • descriptive hyperlink text
  • contrasting background colors behind text (where used)
  • easy to read non-serif font types
  • CSS design - enabling user controlled font size
  • liquid layout
  • consistent navigation