Our site has been developed to work with all modern browsers and be accessible and usable to visitors.
Our site:
- adheres as to The World Wide Web Consortium W3C A Web content where possible
- complies with best practice for accessibility and The Equality Act for web accessibility
- complies with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0
- uses standard coding technologies HTML 5 and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS3) for site styling, layout and design and ensure consistency of the design across browsers
- provides text to accompany non-text elements (such as pictures or graphical buttons for navigating)
- has document organisation for sensibly ordered readability without the need for the accompanying style sheets
- makes sure all information conveyed through coloured content can be inferred or is available without colour
- uses clear and simple labelling for the websites content
- clearly delineating changes in the natural text of the document to other content
- the foreground and background colours have sufficient contrast for those who struggle with differentiating colours
- uses an appropriate mark-up language rather than images to convey information
- uses header elements to convey structure
- uses style sheets to control the layout and presentation
- clearly identifies the target of each link
- uses a sitemap to provide further information about layout
- uses navigation mechanisms in a consistent manner
- provides metadata to add semantic information to web pages
- divides large blocks of information into more manageable blocks when possible.