Accessibility

 We aim to make this website accessible to all users and therefore follow certain standards and government guidelines to ensure that this site can be used as effectively and easily as possible by everyone.

And we are continually working to improve the accessibility and usability of the content on our website.

Website and government standard compliance

This website has been built to comply with all of the Priority 2 ('AA') accessibility checkpoint across its web presence, as established in the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) web accessibility initiative (WAI). The WAI promotes usability and accessibility for people with disabilities.

The W3C promotes good practice amongst the web community via initiatives like WAI Web Contact Accessibility Guidelines 1.0.

Accessibility browser options

Microsoft Internet Options - Go to Tools, select Accessibility and you can make changes to formatting and style sheets.
Mozilla Firefox - Go to Tools, select Options, then Advanced and you can make changes to various Accessibility options.

Difficulty using a mouse
Most websites can be used without a traditional mouse, links can be selected and clicked using the keyboard.
If you find it difficult to use a mouse to navigate around the page, you can follow these steps as a substitute to using your mouse:
Click on the TAB key on your keyboard. This will move your cursor to each of the navigation options / links on the screen.
When you have found the link you want, press ENTER on your keyboard.
You can also use the 'Page Up' and 'Page Down' keys on your keyboard to move the page to the area you want to read.

PDF documents

PDF documents may not be readily accessible to screen readers and may not be formatted for visually impaired users, the following tool can be used to convert PDF documents into plain text or plain HTML documents. This service is provided by Adobe. Adobe Acrobat access plug-in

Please contact us on 024 7685 8672 is you are experiencing any difficulties using this website.