This site has been designed to allow users who suffer from impaired sight, colour blindness and complete blindness to get the most from it.

• For users with impaired vision all text can be fully enlarged. Text-based links have been used, rather than graphic images in order that the user can still navigate the site web viewing it in enlarged format.

You can increase the size of the text on our web pages by adjusting the text size in your web browser.

• For people with colour vision problems all background colours were chosen to ensure the best possible contrast. Furthermore these background tints can be removed if necessary.

• The layout of the site, and of each page within it, has been designed to a logical format. This means that people using speech synthesiser software can navigate more easily around the site and are presented with information in a logical order

• A header bar at the top of each page means that users can see, at any point, exactly where they are within the site.

• All relevant images are tagged with "alt" text descriptions: when you hover over an image the "alt" tag tells you what the picture is about. Null "alt" tags marked blank are used for images that are not relevant to using the site.

These are just a few of a series of guidelines that have been adhered to in the design of this site. For a more detailed breakdown, click on the link below to go directly to the Web Accessibility Initiative Website (this site will open in a new window.) http://www.w3.org/WAI