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Accessibility
Standards
compliance
Every page on this site
uses structured semantic markup. H1 tags are used for section titles,
H2 tags for main page titles (and H3 and H4 tags for sub titles).
Certain specialist browsers, such as screen readers allow users to
navigate through pages by headings and sub-headings when they are
properly marked-up in this way. (For example, on this page, JAWS users
can skip to the next section within the accessibility statement by
pressing ALT+INSERT+3.)
Navigation aids
Every page on this site
begins with invisible 'Skip to content' links which allows users of
text only and screen reader browsers to skip over page headers and
navigation bars and go straight to the either the main navigation menu
or the main page content. All dropdown menus are accessible using the
tab key.
Links
Links are written to make
sense out of context.
Images
All content images used in
this site include ALT attributes. Screen readers read will read this
text, and text-only browsers will display it so that, at the very
least, users who have problems seeing images can access a sense of
what the images are communicating.
Visual
design
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This site uses cascading
style sheets for its visual layout and text formatting.
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The size of all of the
text on this site can be manipulated by users via the 'text size'
options in visual browsers. All key content, all
body text and of all of the text contained in navigation menus can
be increased or decreased by users.
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If your browser or
browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the content of
each page is still readable.
Forms
All of the input elements
in the forms on this site are marked up with label tags. These provide
several benefits:
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Users who have
difficulty navigating through a form with a mouse can, for example,
click on the text beside the form elements, such as text input
boxes, in order to enter those elements.
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The use of label tags
allows screen readers to intelligently announce what a particular
input element is, by reading the label.
Accessibility references
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