About this website
Accessibility
This organisation believes the web is here for everyone, so endevours to make our website as accessible as possible.
Our website has been designed so that it may be used by a wide audience on a range of platforms. The pages have been built to meet as many of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (level 1) checkpoints as possible.
For more information on web accessibility, take a look at the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C).
Structural Markup
The web site is build using XHTML and CSS(Cascading Styles Sheets).
When CSS are not applied to a document (or when using a screen reader), the structure of the site is such that it should still flow and make sense.
Text Sizing
This site uses only relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified "text size" option in visual browsers.
Most modern web browsers will allow you to resize the text content in a page. This allows users with impaired vision to have a more useful web experience. Users with a small moniter may also wish to make the font size smaller to allow them to fit more content on the screen.
Javascript & Flash
Certain areas of this website use Javascript to add some minor functionality. Where Javascript is disabled, a version has been provided with equivalent functionality.
Where Adobe Flash (previously Macromedia Flash) is used on this website, a suitable alternative for non-Flash users is also provided.
Images
Alternate text is provided where the graphic contains text, the image has a contextual description of value or some other information can be conveyed.
Links
Links within the pages are written in such a way as they should make sense when taken out of context. For example, "click here" conveys little information whereas "read the full story" might mean more to a user.
