We are dedicated to providing a website that can be used by everyone who needs to. We are always working to increase the accessibility of this website and in doing so, follow internationally accepted guidelines and standards.

These guidelines created by the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) explain how to make web content more accessible to people with disabilities.

We’ll always try to make our website accessible to people who use assistive technology such as screen readers and those unable to use a mouse or other pointing devices.

Accessibility features on this website include:

• Use colour contrasts between foreground and background colours
• As well as images, we use alternative text so that people who can’t see images are able to read the text and picture what the image will look like
• Text elements that can be resized
• Links that have visible focus styles to assist those only using a keyboard.
• Links that do what they say or have additional information that can be read by screen-reading devices
• Headings can be read through screen readers
• Correct use of tables to display appropriate tabular information, with headings and captions to assist those using screen reading devices
• We use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to control the presentation of our website, this helps those using assistive technologies.

To make sure our website is not only accessible now but also in the future, it has been built using code that is compliant with the latest W3C standards for HTML. This will make sure it displays correctly.

We use accessibility testing tools and periodically perform accessibility audits of our website. Whilst we want to constantly follow the guidelines and standards mentioned above, it cannot always be possible to do so in all areas of the website due to the constantly changing nature of technology.

We know the list shouldn’t stop there, which is why we’re constantly seeking solutions to fix any accessibility issues that we find. If you feel we could improve any of the ways we communicate with you, or make your accessibility to information easier, please get in touch.