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Accessibility

We have made every effort to make our website accessible and easy to use for everyone, no matter what browser you choose to use, and whether or not you have any disabilities.

Nothing is out of your reach

The site’s layout takes into account users who are blind or visually impaired. It is fully compatible with popular screen reading software. If you have difficulties using a mouse, the site can be navigated using only a keyboard.

Changing text size

Most browsers feature the ability to resize text on screen to a level you feel comfortable with. This tool is available in the menu of various browsers as follows:

Browser Instructions
Internet Explorer 7 (PC) Page > Zoom
Internet Explorer 5, 5.5, 6 (PC) View > Text Size
Firefox, Netscape 8 View > Text Size
Opera View > Zoom
Netscape 6, 7, Mozilla View > Text Zoom
Safari (Mac) View > Make Text Bigger

Alternatively, if you are using a modern browser and have a mouse with a wheel you can also alter the size of the text size by holding down ctrl (PC) or command (Mac) on your keyboard while scrolling up and down with the mouse wheel.

Navigating the page

This site has been designed to allow you to navigate through the main controls on the page using the keyboard. The TAB key allows you to cycle through the controls and the ENTER key allows you to select a button or a link.

The page can be scrolled up and down using either the up and down cursor keys, or for longer pages the PageUp and PageDown keys may be used to scroll a screen at a time.

Links

Every effort has been made to ensure that link names are distinct and not repeated on pages.

Standards

In technical language, all pages on this site should be valid to Extensible Hyper Text Mark-up Language (XHTML) 1.0 Strict and use structured semantic markup and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

This website conforms to the Guidelines endorsed by the Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) and supports the Worldwide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, Level AA, to ensure a Web accessibility standard has been achieved and is maintained.

We strive to obey the spirit of the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) 1995 with respect to the provision of services online, as required by the Disability Rights Commission (DRC).