Accessibility Statement
We strive to ensure that our website is accessible to all by complying with the recommendations of the relevant industry standards and existing US government legislation. This page provides details of what we have done to ensure standards compliance, and also illustrates some of the accessibility features contained within this site.
Accessibility Features
- Navigation: if you navigate without the use of a mouse, please use your tab key as usual, or alternatively you may like to use our access keys. Our access key guide is listed below.
- A breadcrumb bar is listed at the top of each page to help you navigate where you are in our site.
- The website menu is listed before and after the main content.
- Links in the vertical menu are padded for easier clicking.
- Goto “Top” links are provided at the bottom of each page.
- High Contrast Version: if you have difficulty reading dark text on a light background, please try the high contrast version of this site. This version features light text on a dark background. Switch to the high-contrast version.
- Mobile (or other small screen) Version: if you use a PDA or any other small screen device, you may like to choose this lightweight version. When accessing our website via a mobile device, you will automatically be presented with this mobile-compatible version. Switch to the small screen version.
Standards Compliance
All the code used on this site is standards compliant. If you wish to do so, you may check both our html and css compliance by using the W3C html validation service or the css validation service from the same organization.
Common Keyboard Functions
- [Backspace] – Browser Back Function
- [Tab] Advances forward through any links, with single presses.
- [Shift + Tab] Reverses back through links, with single presses of the two key combination. (Hold down ‘Shift’, and use single presses of the ‘Tab’ key to reverse through links.)
- [Enter] Execute.
