Disabilities that may restrict people from accessing Web content include blindness, colour blindness, dyslexia and lack of ‘fine motor control’ particularly difficulties related to using a PC mouse.

People with disabilities may need to use assistive technologies such as screen readers, Braille displays, voice recognition software, alternative keyboard/mice, etc, to view web pages.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) provide Web Content Accessibility guidelines to assist web developers in creating accessible web pages.

In accordance with these guidelines, this website conforms to Priority 1 of these Guidelines but also meets many of the points from level 2.

Scalable fonts

You can use your browser to adjust the size of the text.

Internet Explorer users

To increase text size: from the browser menu, select view > text size > larger
To decrease text size: from the browser menu, select view > text size > smaller

Netscape and Mozilla users

To increase text size: from the browser menu, select view > text zoom > larger
To decrease text size: from the browser menu, select view > text zoom > smaller

Opera users

To increase text size: from the browser menu, select view > zoom > 120%
To decrease text size: from the browser menu, select view > zoom > 80%