Accessibility

Because this site consists almost entirely of text, accessibility should not be a problem.

Also this site has been designed to be accessed by a variety of browsers.

However, we are unable to guarantee that this website will be compatible with all hardware and software that could be used by visitors to this site.

If you do have any difficulties with access, then please contact us.

Text size

You can change the size of the text on the site so that it is clearer to read by adjusting your browser settings as follows:

Microsoft Internet Explorer
Go to the View menu, select Text Size and then either 'Larger or Largest.

Firefox, Netscape, Mozilla
Go to the View menu and choose Text Size and then Increase Ctrl++.

Opera
Go to the View menu and choose Zoom where you can increase the percentage as required.

Safari
Go to the View menu and then choose 'Make Text Bigger'.

Text colour

You can also change the colour of the body of the text on the site as follows:

Microsoft Internet Explorer
Go to the Tools menu, select Internet Options, then select Colours and make changes to text and background colours in the Colours panel.

Firefox, Netscape, Mozilla
Go to Tools menu, then choose the Options menu, then select General in the left-hand panel, then click on the Fonts and Colours button in the dialogue box. You can set the colour of text and background from here.

Opera
Go to the File menu, then select the Preferences menu, and then choose the Fonts-Page Style item in the tree at the left. Here you can change the background colour and the fonts colour.

PDF

To view and print pdf files you'll need to install Adobe Acrobat Reader. You can download this free from the adobe website at http://get.adobe.com/reader/otherversions/.

Screen Readers

NonVisual Desktop Access (NVDA) is a popular, free Screen Reader for the Windows Operating System. For more information and to download the NVDA software, visit the NVDA website at http://www.nvda-project.org.

A range of other free, open source and commercial screen readers are available for different platforms and operating systems, a list of which can be found on Wikipedia's list of screen readers at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_readers.