Accessibility

We want our website to be accessible to as many people as possible. So we’ve developed our site in accordance with the UK Government website guidelines. The following features improve navigation for screen reader users, keyboard navigation and users of text-only browsers.

Access Keys
Access keys can be used to navigate all the content on our site, without having to use your mouse. Our website uses the UK Government access keys. That means, if you are using:

Internet Explorer on Windows, you can press ALT + an access key;
Macintosh, you can press Control + an access key. Then press Enter to activate the link.
Netscape (version 6 or later), Mozilla or Firefox, you can press ALT and the relevant access key.

The following keys are available throughout our website:
0 - access keys (alt + 0)
1 - home
3 - site map
9 - contact us
B - about us
P - media releases
S - skip navigation

Browsers
Most browsers have the capacity to change font colour, turn off images and stylesheets, and increase magnification. For further details about your browser’s built-in accessibility features, visit the websites of the browser companies.

Microsoft - www.microsoft.com/enable
Apple - www.apple.com/accessibility
Linux - http://accessibility.kde.org/ or http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap
Mozilla Firefox - http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/options

Font sizes
You can increase the size of the text on this site by adjusting your browser’s settings. If you use:
Microsoft Internet Explorer, go to the View menu, select Text Size and then choose Larger or Largest.
Netscape Navigator, go to the View menu and choose Increase Font until the text is the size you require.
Firefox, go to the View menu, select Text Size and then choose Increase. Alternatively, you can use the keyboard by pressing CRTL and + at the same time.

External links
All external links on this website open in a new browser window.

Images
All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics have empty ALT attributes.

Style sheets
This site uses Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for visual layout. If your browser does not support style sheets, the use of structured semantic mark-up ensures that the content of each page is still readable and clearly structured.

Tables
We have avoided using tables for layout on this site except where absolutely necessary.

Help us make our site more accessible
If you have any suggestions or feedback about the accessibility of our site, please email us.

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