Acessibility

This website has been designed and programmed to be as accessible as possible and to be compatible with the types of adaptive technology used by people with disabilities, including screen readers.

The site has been built to meet all Priority 1 and 2, and most Priority 3 checkpoints as described in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 1 (WCAG1) published by the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

This website complies with the UK Government’s Disability Discrimination Act of October 1999 and 2004, the Royal National Institute for the Blind’s web accessibility guidelines, and the W3C consortium’s Web Access Initiative guidelines.

Access keys
Access keys are keyboard shortcuts that provide quick links to common website features, without the need to use a mouse.

To navigate with access keys:

 

Windows
Hold down the 'Alt' key and the access key, followed by the 'Enter' key

Macintosh
Hold down the 'Ctrl' key and the access key

 

The complete list of access key are as follow:

0 - Accessibility statement
1 - Home page
2 - News
3 - Site Map
5 - About us
6 - Expertise
7 - Our work
8 - Privacy policy
9 - Contact us

 

Please note: Access keys are only supported by Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 and above and Netscape 6 and above.

 

Images
All content images on this site are provided with descriptive ALT attributes

 

Navigation
All pages contain a link to the home page (access key 1), sitemap (access key 3) and search box (access key 4). The navigation system has been constructed in a consistent fashion to provide clear navigation pathways throughout the site.

 

Sitemap
There is a sitemap of Form (access key 3) which can help you navigate around the website.

 

PDFs
In many cases we have provided an HTML version of PDFs on this website, however if you would like to use a screen reader to read PDF documents you can find out more at the Adobe access website.

 

Text size
You may wish to view this website in larger text size. To do this you will need to adjust your browser settings:
- If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer, go to the ‘View’ menu in the browser tool bar, select ‘Text size’ and select your required size - either larger or smaller
- If you are using Netscape Navigator, go to the ‘View’ menu in the browser tool bar, select ‘Increase Font’ or ‘Decrease Font’ and until the text is the required size

 

Layout
To conform to W3 accessibility guidelines, cascading style sheets have been used to create the layout of this site. However, the functionality and content are independent of this technology and users may disable the default style sheets to maximize flexibility with font resizing or implement their own style sheets in their browser preferences.