Accessibility

This website supports accessibility and is committed to ensuring everyone can access the information available. The layout of the site takes into account users who are visually impaired or have difficulties using a mouse. It is fully compatible with popular screen reading software, and can be navigated using just a keyboard.

Access keys

Access keys are shortcuts to provide quick and easy access to common pages without the need for a mouse and have been included to assist users with disabilities navigate around the web site. Access Keys are available for the menu on the left hand side and are used by holding Alt and pressing the corresponding key from the list below and then pressing the return key (enter). This feature is not supported by IE7, although many other browsers do support it (Firefox, IE6, etc).

0 - Accessibility Information
1 - Homepage
3 - Site Map
9 - Contact Us
S - Jump to main content
N - Jump to navigation

Documents

Documents on this site may be in PDF (Portable Document Format). Before you can read them you will need Adobe Acrobat viewer which can be downloaded from www.adobe.com or by using the Adobe image link at the bottom of any page. You will find more information about accessibility when using Adobe products here: http://access.adobe.com.

ALT tags

All our images have ALT tags attached to them. This provides a text equivalent for every non-text element (e.g., via "alt", "longdesc", or in element content). This includes: images, graphical representations of text (including symbols), image map regions, animations (e.g., animated GIFs), applets and programmatic objects, ASCII art, frames, scripts, images used as list bullets, spacers, graphical buttons, sounds (played with or without user interaction), stand-alone audio files, audio tracks of video, and video.

Page organization

This site uses headings, lists, and consistent structure.