Accessibility

This website has been developed to be as accessible as possible to users with disabilities, including users who may be blind, partially sighted, or have a physical disability.

Structured, semantic markup: Headings and navigation menus

  • HTML heading tags are used to convey document structure. H1 tags are used for main titles, H2 tags for subtitles, and so on.
  • Navigation menus are marked up as HTML lists. This ensures that the number of links in the list is read out at the start and it can be skipped easily.

Images

All content images used in this site include descriptive alt attributes. Purely decorative graphics include empty alt attributes

Access keys

Access keys are keyboard shortcuts that replace the need to use the mouse for navigation in browsers that support them. In Internet Explorer on Windows, you can press ALT + an access key; on Macintosh, you can press Control + an access key. Then press Enter to activate the link.

The following access keys are available thoughout the website:

0:
Jump to Accessibility Information (this page)
1:
Jump to Home page
3:
Jump to Sitemap
8:
Jump to Disclaimer
9:
Jump to Contact Us
s:
Jump to the content area of a page

How to use access keys

Internet Explorer 5+ (PC)

Hold down the ALT key, press the number or letter of the access key, release both keys then press ENTER.

Internet Explorer 5+ (Mac)

Hold down the CTRL key and press the number or letter of the access key.

Mozilla and Firefox (PC)

Hold down the ALT key and press the number or letter of the access key.

Mozilla and Firefox (Mac)

Hold down the CTRL key and press the number or letter of the access key.

Safari (Mac)

Hold down the CTRL key and press the number or letter of the access key.

Font sizes

You may change the font size of this document to your preference through your browser:

  • In Internet Explorer, select View, then Text Size, and then your preferred size.
  • In Firefox, selectView, the Text Size, and then you preferred size.
  • In Netscape select View, then Text Zoom, and then your preferred percentage size.

Style sheets

This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout. If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the use of structured semantic markup ensures that the content of each page is still readable and clearly structured.

You may import your own stylesheet into this website:

  • In Internet Explorer select Tools, then Internet Options, and then Accessibility. Next click on any or all 3 checkboxes to ignore colours, font styles or font sizes. In the same window you can change your style sheet by clicking the checkbox that says, 'format document using my style sheet' then simply browse to your style sheet and click OK.
  • In Netscape select Edit, then Preferences and then Appearance. You will be given the choice to specify your own colours and fonts.

Tables

Tables are not used for layout purposes.

Scripting

Java script is used occasionally on the website to improve usability. However it is possible to browse the website without Javascript.

Downloads

This site uses PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file format for the publication of large and complex documents. Adobe Acrobat documents can be converted back to plain text using Adobe's Web-based conversion service .

To view and print PDF files, you must have Adobe® Acrobat® Reader installed:

Flash

Flash is used occasionally on the site for decorative purposes. However, you can still see all off the content without the Flash Player. Flash is used merely as an enhancement to the site not as a means of navigation or providing content.

Click this link to download the Flash Player from the Macromedia site