Accessibility information

Standards compliance

WAI
All pages within the site comply with the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Priority 1 Guidelines. Many Priority 2 and 3 guidelines have also been followed in the creation of this website.

Forms
All forms have been made accessible using labels that are explicitly associated with the text boxes, radio buttons and checkboxes that make up these forms.

Text

Use of text
Where possible, and without compromising design, text has been used instead of images on this website. Navigation, page titles and subtitles, links and other elements have all been created using accessible html text.

Text Size
To allow full user control over how text appears on screen, this site has been created using relative text sizes. To find out how to use your browser's inbuilt text resizing tools, visit web help.

Multimedia
Flash, video and audio have all been included on this website, but none of these elements have been used to provide key content, such as navigation.

Contrast and colour

Contrast
The site has been tested to ensure that pages provide sufficient contrast when viewed by users with colour blindness or when viewed on a black and white screen.

Colour
No information is conveyed through colour alone.

Navigation and links

Opening links
All links to other websites will open in a new window. Publications and downloaded documents open in a new window.
If any links open in a new or popup window, adequate warning will be provided.

Images

Alt text
All content images include descriptive ALT text attributes. Structural graphics have been given null ALT text attributes.

Further information
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
International standards organisation, part of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)