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Accessibility

We believe that everyone should be able to use public websites, regardless of disability or access device. See our web services page to find out how we help other companies to make their sites accessible without compromising style or function.

This site has several special features designed to make it more accessible:

Use of style sheets

The textual content on this site is almost entirely independent of page layout and style, meaning that you should be able to read it regardless of how you access it.

You can use your browser settings to change the size, colours and fonts used, or you can apply your own style sheet if your browser permits you to do so.

'Hidden' shortcuts

Visitors using screen-reading software can jump straight to the navigation or main content area on each page by clicking on the 'skip to navigation' or 'skip to main content area' links at the start of the page. These links are hidden to those navigating by sight alone.

Access keys

We have set up access keys to provide keyboard shortcuts to the site homepage, the main content area on each page, and the navigation bar.

Windows users should press the 'ALT' key at the same time as one of the letters listed next, then press 'Return'. Mac users should press the 'CTRL' key at the same time as one of the letters listed. They don't need to press 'Return' to activate the link.

Access key	Page linked to
0	Home
1	Navigation bar
2	Main content area

Web browser compatibility

We have built this site to work with all the popular web browsers and types of computer but, inevitably, its appearance differs slightly between systems.

Although the site works in all modern browsers, we recommend that you use either Firefox version 2 Microsoft Internet Explorer version 7.