Accessibility Statement
This website is designed to be as accessible as possible. If you do have any problems using the site, please send comments to Jeremy McIlwaine, and we will do our best to incorporate any requests.
The accessibility features of the site include:
- Valid XHTML and CSS
- to ensure compatibility with a wide range of browsers
- Colours tested with Juicy Studio's Colour Contrast Analyser
- to ensure foreground and background colours provide adequate contrast
- Relative font sizes
- text can be resized using your browser's View options
- "Skip to main content" links
- enables screen reader users to skip over links at the top of each page to the main content of the page (the links are hidden from graphical browsers)
- Link titles
- hover over links with mouse to display link titles; screen readers have an option to read them
- Links should be easily identifiable
- main navigation has button-like links; links in the main body of text are dark red, underlined and bold; links in the left-hand sidebar are white and bold, and take you down section within the same page
- Acronym definitions
- hover over acronym with mouse to display definition; definitions read by screen readers
- Alternative text for images
- will display if images are turned off on your browswer; will be read by screen readers