Accessibility

This website aims to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (opens in a new window)(WCAG 2.0) of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to ensure people with disabilities are not excluded from using this website.

How to increase the font size on this website

Internet Explorer 7 and 6

• Choose the drop down menu at the top of the window of the browser marked 'View'
• A list of options will appear in the drop down menu - choose text size
• Next another drop down menu should appear with options of smallest, smaller, medium, larger, largest
• Select large or largest

Firefox 3

• Choose the drop down menu at the top of the window of the browser marked 'View'
• A list of options will appear in the drop down menu - choose 'zoom' and then 'zoom in'

Screen magnification

If you change the settings and find that this does not magnify the text enough to be useful, then it is worth investigating screen magnification software.

Screen magnification can magnify up to 16 times. Products vary in price from around £175 to £600, depending on features, such as whether speech support is built into the program. Some of the more popular products include Lunar, MAGic and Zoomtext.

Changing screen colours

• To over-ride the default colours or colour schemes, if using Internet Explorer, go to the Tools menu and choose 'Internet options'.
• When the dialog box appears, click on the 'Colours' button and adjust accordingly by de-selecting the 'Use Windows colours' box.
• Then choose the 'Accessibility' button and tick the box labelled 'Ignore colours specified on Web pages'.

Viewing the full screen

• To view the full screen and remove some of the browser's navigation bars, press F11 once.
• Press it again to return the navigation bar

Translation of website content

We provide automated translation of our website content into a number of languages using Google translation tools. However, if this does not meet your needs, please contact us.

External websites

All links to external websites will launch in a new browser window.

Information in other formats

Information can be made available in other formats, such as audio tape and braille. Please contact us for more information.