Our website has been designed to provide you with an enjoyable interactive experience, as well as to be as inclusive and accessible to everyone as possible. This page highlights what we have done to make our website accessible, and explains how to use these features. The links below can be used to navigate around this page.
On our site we have included features that are particularly useful for assistive technologies. On this page there are a series of hidden intra-page links for users without style sheets and users with assistive technologies to easily skip to any section. We have made our pages 'device-independent' and they can be navigated by using a keyboard, mouse or combination of the two.
Many links have 'Title' attributes which describe the destination of the link. Wherever possible, links are written to make
sense out of context, so that you do not have to read the surrounding text to understand where the link will take you. On any page,
identically-worded links will always link to the same page. You will always be warned if clicking on a link opens a file or
website in a new browser window.
All informative images on our website have an alternative text (ALT) attribute. This describes the contents or function
of the image. This description will be displayed when images are turned off, on a text-only browser or as a 'tool tip' in certain
browsers when the mouse pointer is moved over the image. Where informative images have been used as backgrounds, we have used a
hidden text-based description which can be read by assistive technologies and displayed by text-only browsers.
Our website has been designed to look great and to reflect both our professional attitude towards our customers and our brand
values. We are proud to say that we have considered accessibility and usability during the design of this website, to make
it easier for everyone to use. Our website uses relative font sizes which can be resized in your browser (although this may
change the layout). Where colours are used, we have tried to make sure there is a good degree of contrast between foreground
and background items. If your browser or reading device does not support style sheets, or you wish to switch them off, all of
our content will still be readable. Any use of tables for tabular data or tabled structure has been appropriately marked up for
assistive technologies. All areas of content have been explained, and where we have used drop-down navigation, we have provided
a landing page with these links on the page in case your browser does not support our menu.
This site uses Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for visual layout. If your browser or browsing device does not support style sheets
at all, the use of structured semantic mark-up ensures that the content of each page is still readable and clearly structured.
If you wish, you may import your own style sheet into this website. Within Internet Explorer, select 'Tools', then 'Internet Options',
and then 'Accessibility'. Next click any or all of the three checkboxes to ignore colours, font styles or font sizes. In the same window
you can change your style sheet by clicking the checkbox that says 'format document using my style sheet', then simply browse to
your style sheet and click OK. In Netscape select 'Edit', then 'Preferences', and then 'Appearance'. You will then be given the choice
to specify your own colours and fonts. All forms follow a logical Tab sequence. Labels are associated with fields using HTML label
tags, (Changes of style sheets will change the layout of the page; however, pages are formatted to be read without style sheets).
We have optimised our CSS for IE 6/7 and Mozilla Firefox.