Accessibility

We are committed to providing a site that is accessible to everyone. We are always seeking to improve our website and its ease of use. Our guidelines include:

• Designing the site for different monitor sizes – including mobile phones – so horizontal scrolling is not required
• Using meaningful alternative text for all images to provide descriptive text
• Using a simple colour scheme
• Using a standard font which is easy to read

The site has been designed to adhere to best practice by following W3C standards.

Pages have been built to comply with a standard of WCAG 2.0 ‘AA’ guidelines.

Fonts

Text size can be increased or decreased in your browser. General guidelines are shown below, or the BBC has a useful set of instructions and video guides.

Microsoft Internet Explorer

• Click “View” at the top of the screen

• Click on “Text size” on the drop down menu that appears

• Options including “small”, “medium”, “large”, “largest” should appear

• Select “largest”

Mozilla Firefox

• Click on ‘View’ and then ‘Zoom’ in the drop-down menu
• Click ‘Zoom In’ to increase the text size
• Click ‘Zoom Out’ to decrease the tetx size

Safari

• Click ‘View’ at the top of the screen
• Click ‘Zoom In’ to increase the text size, or ‘Zoom Out’ to decrease the text size

Chrome

• Click the ‘Customise and Control’ spanner symbol in the top right hand corner.

• Select ‘Settings’ or ‘Preferences’

• Click on ‘Under the Bonnet’ and customise your fonts and font size in the ‘Web Content’ section

Further information

The BBC’s My Web My Way website has a great deal of advice about changing text size, colours, and making your keyboard and mouse easier to use.