Accessibility
We aim to make this website accessible to all users by following web standards and government guidelines.
For more information about the accessible features of our site, please choose an option below.
- Browser accessibility options
- Text only
- High contrast
- Visual design
- Downloadable documents
- Access keys
- Accessibility statement
- Standards compliance
- Use of assistive technologies
You can specify the font sizes, styles and colours, and foreground and background colours of web pages displayed on your computer using browser options. This could be useful if you have impaired vision or find certain colours or contrasts easier to read.
The steps below will show you how to adjust text sizes in Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Firefox and Netscape.
- For Microsoft Internet Explorer use the 'View' menu, select 'Text size' and then choose a size from the list provided
- For Mozilla or Firefox use the 'View' menu, and select 'Increase text size' or 'Decrease text size' as required.
- For Netscape 6.x use the 'View' menu, selecr 'Text size' and then choose a size from the list provided.
More information on making the web more accessible for you visit: www.bbc.co.uk/accessibility
A text only version of the website is under development.
A high contrast version of the site is under development.
This site uses cascading style sheets (CSS 1) for visual layout.
If your browser or browsing device does not support style sheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.
A number of downloadable documents available within the site are in portable document format (PDF). In order to view PDF documents, you need free software called Adobe Acrobat Reader. You can download Adobe Acrobat Reader by clicking the icon below.
If you use a screen reading program which synthesizes text as audible speech you may experience difficulty reading PDF files. The Access Adobe website provides online tools to convert PDF documents to standard HTML or ASCII text. The site can be visited at:
Most browser's support jumping to specific links by typing certain keys defined on the website. In Windows, you can press ALT plus the listed access key; on Macintosh, you can press Control plus the list access key. Pressing ENTER will then take you on to that page.
This site uses the following access keys:
S Skip navigation
1 Home page
2 What's new
3 Sitemap
4 Search
5 Help
6 Complaints procedure
7 Terms and conditions
8 Terms and conditions
9 Feedback form
0 Access key details
We are committed to ensuring accessibility of its Web site for people with disabilities. New and updated Web content produced by our organisation will conform to W3C/WAI's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, Conformance Level AA.
We will continually review this policy in the future to consider updating it to an advanced version of W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines once available.
All pages on this site comply with all priority 1, and 2 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
This site validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
The stylesheets on this site are CSS 2.
The following are links relating to the accessibility and technical standards of this website.
Assistive technologies are products used by people with disabilities to help accomplish web tasks that they cannot accomplish otherwise or could not do easily.
Some assistive technologies rely on output of other user agents, such as text browsers, voice browsers, multimedia players and plug-ins. Assistive technology comes in many different forms, some of these include;
- Alternative keyboards
- Braille
- Screen magnifiers
- Screen readers
- Speech recognition
- Scanning software
- Tabbing through structural elements
- Text browsers
- Voice browsers
All our newly developed web pages are tested against as many types of assistive technologies as we can to make the pages more accessible. If you are unable to access any information using any assistive technology then please contact us and we will try to find an alternative way for you to access or be provided with the information.