We recognise the importance of providing a website that is accessible by all, including visitors with disabilities and those using alternative browsing devices. Here is an outline of the steps we have taken to make this site as accessible as possible...

Access keys

Some browsers support jumping to specific links by typing keys defined on the web site. The underlined letters in the main navigation links indicate which keys to press for which section. If you are using a Windows PC, press ALT plus the access key. If you are using a Macintosh, press Control plus the access key. Note that not all browsers offer the ability to navigate this way, but for those that do, you can use the following access keys:

w

Welcome page

2

Skip to main content

t

What we do

h

History

p

Help us

n

News and events

a

Activities

d

Donations

l

Links

c

Contact us

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Accessibility Statement (this page)

 

Skip to main content link

A 'Skip to main content' link has been added at the start of each page to enable those using text browsers or assistive technology to skip directly to the main content. The link is hidden from visual browsers when style sheets are enabled.

Resizing text

The site uses relative font sizes, which allows users of visual browsers to resize text themselves without breaking page layout, greatly helping partially sighted users. You can normally find the controls for this in your browser's View menu.

Visual structure

The pages in this site use logical semantic markup helping to convey document structure, and cascading style sheets (CSS) have been used for visual layout and styling. This means that should a particular browsing device or technology not support style sheets, the content should remain readable.

Images

All content images used in this site utilise descriptive 'alt' attributes - screen readers and text-only browsers will read this text and gain a sense of what the images are communicating. For any images which are purely decorative, the alt tag is set to null to allow screen readers to skip over them.

Forms

All form inputs follow a logical sequence and can be navigated using the Tab key. All form fields contain 'label' and 'id' tags to explicitly associate the form field with its label, which creates a larger clickable area, allowing easier entry of data for those with impaired hand mobility. The labels also allow screen readers to announce what a particular form input element refers to.

Standards compliance

We have gone to great lengths to ensure our website is well coded and accessible. All pages in this site conform to the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Level A or higher. While the guidelines themselves are open to some degree of interpretation and cannot be tested automatically, the site's code consists of valid, standards compliant XHTML/CSS and can be tested here.