Accessibility – usability, technical issues

We make every effort to ensure our website is accessible and easy to use for everyone, no matter what browser you choose to use, whether or not you have any disabilities and regardless of your experience of using the Internet.

Accessibility and usability
Accessibility and technical standards
Accessibility and accreditation
What do you think of our website? Contact the web team

Accessibility and usability issues

We aim to have our site accessible and usable by ensuring that:

you can change the font size. See How to increase the size of text
if you are blind or are visually impaired you can use screen reading software to find information. We have
if you have difficulties using a mouse you can navigate the site using the keyboard. See Access keys, see also Using the ‘Tab’ key to navigate links on a web page.
all images have alternative text equivalents so if you cannot see the images you can still use the site
our site navigation and structure are consistent to make it easy for you to find your way around it
we use Plain English
where possible we have one idea per paragraph, use short sentences, bulleted lists so that pages can be scanned and read quickly

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Accessibility and technical standards

We are working to ensure that all webpages pages are valid to Hyper Text Mark-up Language (HTML) 4.01 Transitional and use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

This website conforms to the Guidelines for UK government websites, It supports the Worldwide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, Level A, to ensure a web accessibility standard has been achieved and is maintained.

We are working to ensure that all our pages meet the AA standard of the W3C’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

For more information see:

Web Accessibility Initiative: www.w3.org/WAI/
Guidelines for UK government websites: www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/e-government/resources/handbook/introduction.asp

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Accessibility and accreditation

This website has been awarded a Plain English Crystal Mark and the RNIB See it Right Logo

For more information see:

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Contact the web team

We welcome feedback. If you have any comments or experience difficulties using our website please let us know use our online form What do you think of our website?.

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