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Accessibility |
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This website is designed to be accessible to as many users as
possible, and to meet or exceed current UK accessibility legislation and
internationally accepted guidelines.
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If you have any questions or comments regarding accessibility,
please feel free to contact the webteam.
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Accessibility Features on this Website |
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Standards Compliance |
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Pages on this aim to conform to the
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines to at least priority 1 level
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Pages on this site aim to conform to
both the spirit and the letter of the United Kingdom Disability Discrimination
Act 1995
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All pages on this site adhere to
current web-standards, and validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional
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This site uses validated CSS for all
visual layout
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All pages on this site use structured
semantic markup, meaning that if your browser or browsing device does not
support CSS, the content of each page should still be readable
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Links |
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Linking text have been written to make sense out of context,
and, wherever possible, title attributes which describe the link in greater
detail have been added.
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All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT
attributes. Purely decorative graphics are either applied using CSS, or include
null ALT attributes.
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Images used for headings are applied using CSS – since the
heading exists as text behind the graphic, ALT attributes are unnecessary.
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Font Sizes |
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You may change the font size of this document, either via the
preference-settings of your browser, or using the buttons above.
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Additionally, all modern browsers (with the exeption of Internet
Explorer for Windows) allow resizing of text via the keyboard using CTRL ( CMND
Key for Macintosh) and the '+' or '-' keys.
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Navigation shortcuts |
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In addition to Access Keys (below), use of the Tab key to
navigate through the page has been ordered to fascilitate ease-of-use for those
who rely on the keyboard for navigation.
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Access Key Settings |
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In order to aid navigation around this site, the following
keyboard Access Keys are enabled.
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Information on how to use these shortcuts can be found below. |
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1 — Home
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2 — About
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3 — News
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4 — Projects
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5 — Management
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6 — Press
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7 — Contact
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Accessibility References & Software |
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W3 accessibility guidelines, which explains the reasons behind each guideline
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W3 accessibility techniques, which explains how to implement each guideline
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The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA)
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JAWS, a screen reader for Windows
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Home Page Reader, IBM's screen reader for Windows
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Lynx, a free text-only web browser for blind users with refreshable Braille displays
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Firefox, a standards-compliant, secure visual web-browser with many user-configurable accessibility-related features, including: text zooming; user stylesheets; image toggling. A free download is available for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and other operating systems
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