Accessibility

Key measures we have taken to ensure the site is accessible to all are as follows:

Standards Compliance

  • Our aim is to meet all priority 1 requirements of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (WCAG 1.0). Meeting this standard is commonly known as Level A compliance.
  • We also aim to meet as many priority 2 requirements of the WCAG 1.0 as possible. Meeting this standard is commonly known as Level AA compliance.
  • Where possible pages of the site are WAI AA compliant, XHTML 1.0 transitional and meet CSS 2 standards.

Access Keys

This site supports a subset of the UK Government's access keys standard, as follows:

0 - Accessibility
1 - Home
2 - Marketing
3 - Digital
4 - Contact
5 - Privacy policy
6 - Recruitment
S - Skip Navigation

Skip navigation

Each page contains a skip navigation link which takes you to the beginning of the content area.

Visual Design

  • This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.
  • If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.
  • The colour schemes used throughout the site exhibit good contrast for users who are colour blind.

Images

Alternative text is provided for users who are blind or partially-sighted, using non-graphical browsers.

Text

The text styles used for the site are encoded using fonts that can be resized as desired using standard controls in your browser.