accessibility
There are a number of features built into this site that are designed to improve accessibility:
Access Keys
In most browsers, access keys are used by pressing "ALT" and the access key, followed by "Enter". The following access keys can be used from any page in this site to allow quick access without the use of a mouse:
- Skip Navigation - "s"
- Home Page - "1"
- Site Map - "3"
- Help - "6"
- Legal - "8"
- Feedback Form - "9"
- Accessibility Details - "0"
Tabbed Links
Links within pages can be accessed without use of a mouse by pressing the "TAB" key to move forward to the next link or "Shift" and "TAB" to go back to the previous link.
Once selected, links can be activated by pressing the "Enter" key.
Skip Navigation
Common navigation links at the top of each page can be skipped by non visual browsers by using a dedicated Access Key - "s".
Visual design
This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.
This site uses only relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified "text size" option in visual browsers.
If your browser or browsing device does not support style sheets, the content of each page is still readable.
Images
All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics include null ALT attributes.
Links
Links have title attributes which describe the link in greater detail.
Valid Software
HTML pages and cascading style sheets in this site have been successfully validated using the independent validation service of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) .
