Accessibility

How we make our website accessible

We adhere to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0, a set of guidelines stipulated by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) used to ensure web sites are designed and written in a way that makes them accessible to everyone.

We only use strong colour contrasts
Headings are used correctly to make them readable through screen readers
We use style sheets to determine the presentation of our web site - this assists those using screen reading devices
Where we use images, we use alternative text so that those people who cannot see the image can read the text. These can be read by screen reading devices.

Range of browsers and operating systems that we support

Browsers

Internet Explorer 9 and above

Firefox

Safari

Google Chrome

Opera

We are accessible in various smart phone browsers

Browser updates are available free of charge from each browser provider.

We will update our list of  supported browsers and operating systems from time to time as the software used by our customers changes. 

We will also endeavour to support the  most popular combinations of these browsers and operating systems, for example Internet Explorer 9  with Windows 7.

Reasons to upgrade your browser

New versions are more secure

New versions are faster

Improved browsing experience

Browser updates are available from Microsoft, Firefox, Safari, Google & Opera.