Accessibility

This web site has been designed to make it as widely accessible as possible so that everyone, regardless of ability, can use our site. This page gives information on features included within the site.

Note that you may also need to review the accessibility features in your browser.

Standards compliance

All pages conform to Priority 1 compliance as specified by the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, and endorsed by the Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB), and the majority of Priority 2 and 3 requirements are also met.

Accesskeys

Accesskeys have been used for the most common menu items, adhering to government guidelines. These are as follows:

Home page = 1
Latest news = 2
Request prospectus = 9

Structured, semantic markup

Structured, semantic markup has been used on all pages, using header tags, list items for navigation menus, column and row heading on tables etc.

Graphics, Pictures and Images

Where graphics, pictures and images are used, text descriptions ('Alt-Tags') have been used, to comply with internationally recognised Web accessibility guidelines. All graphical navigation buttons are similarly 'Alt-tagged'.

Scripting

The site is fully accessible if scripting is unavailable.

Links

Where appropriate, links have title attributes which describe the link in greater detail.