
We believe the site meets the priority 1 checkpoints in the W3C's Web Content Accessibility guidelines. The assessment tools are described on the this website page.
There are two broad categories of accessibility concerns - visual and physical.
We have tried to improve on this by making the focus rectangle more visible by making the dotted line thicker. We have also added four 'accesskey' points to act as shortcuts. See the 'Shortcuts' note below.
When you choose 'special' in the KEYBOARD option in the customise panel on this page, you activate the focus rectangle and the accesskeys.
Note that the focus rectangle enhancement doesn't work in Internet Explorer 7 (or IE8 in compatibility view).
The sitemap page provides ready keyboard access. In addition, on that page each of the main sections has been given an 'accesskey' as a shortcut.
ShortcutsTo use these shortcuts, hold down the Alt key and press the appropriate key.
IMPORTANT. This DOES NOT work with the numeric keypad.Note about cookies
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