Site Accessibility
This web site has been designed in compliance with the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA). This act sets out guidelines to ensure that services such as the provision of a web site to the public are as accessible to disabled people as they would be to other public users.People with disabilities can browse web sites using assistive or adaptive browser technologioes such as screen readers and magnifiers. These tools help them to access information in a number of ways, which can be drastically impaired when inaccessible web-design practices are used.
Access keys:
These keyboard shortcuts can provide quick and simple access for users with mobility or visual impairements to navigational elements of web sites. Keyboard shortcuts are used to provide these access keys. There are a number of articles about the use of access keys for web sites which generally come to the conclusion that access keys can be less helpful to users because they often conflict with shortcut keys used by adaptive technologies. For this reason there is only one access key used on this site - 'skip navigation'.
To use it, hold 'ALT' and press 'Z', then hit return (this works in Internet Explorer only).
Access keys in use:
Z - go to the site navigation menu