Did you know?

Section III of the Disability and Discrimination Act, which refers to accessible websites, came into force on 1st October 1999.

The act makes it unlawful for service providers to treat disabled people less favourably for a reason related to their disability.

A formal investigation of 1000 websites by the RNIB in 2004 (see PDF document) revealed that over 80% were next to impossible for those with disabilities to use.

Accessibility Statement

This site has been built to be accessible and usable to as many people as possible by following the UK Disability Discrimination Act.

We have included accessibility checks in every step of our design and build process to ensure it is as accessible as possible.

All pages are XHTML 1.0 Transitional valid and CSS valid. If your browser does not support cascading stylesheets the site will still be readable.

All pages uses relative font sizes. However since the sIFR technique is used for Flash headlines you need to refresh your browser after changing font size in order for the sIFR to resize accordingly as well.

Links have "title" attributes where the link itself does not fully describe the target page.
External links open in new windows. A "title" attribute is added with the wording "new window" to warn you about this.