As recommended by the guidelines below, this site uses 'relative sizing' which means you control the size of text in your web browser.
If you find the text too small or too large you can change it by:
This site is optimised for the default Internet Explorer setting of 'Medium'.
This site has been built using the W3C WAI Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0. These guildelines are supported by the UK Government and the European Commission (EC). This site is Level A conformant but many of the priority 2 and 3 points are implemented. This includes using valid XHTML and CSS formats.
The W3C state 'Conformance to these Guidelines will help make the Web more accessible to users with disabilities and will benefit all users'. We hope this is the case and if you have any comments about how accessible you have found this site please contact the website developers to help inform future developments.
The UK Government access key standard has been implemented on this site to aid visitors who prefer to use the keyboard rather than a mouse to control their web browser.
Access keys are keyboard shortcuts that allow you to navigate by pressing certain buttons on the keyboard. The keys used are listed below.
You can navigate to other links within pages using the 'Tab' key.
To use access keys:
