We want our web site to be as accessible as possible and strive to conform at a minimum to Level Double-A compliance as specified by the Web Accessibility Initiative. This also involves implementing several selected Priority 3 checkpoints required to make the site Level Triple-A standard.
Accessibility features
- Links are written to make sense when read out of context.
- All images used in this site have appropriate text equivalents.
- Cascading style sheets have been used for layout and presentation.
- Each page is constructed so that it can be read without style sheets.
- This site uses relative font sizes to enable the user to specify "text size" in visual browsers.
- An alternate colour contrast makes the site more accessible and readable.
- A text only version of the site is available.
- A site map has been included to provide information about the general layout of the site.
- Keyboard shortcuts have been provided to assist navigation (see below).
Keyboard shortcuts
To give better accessibility to users without a mouse, we have integrated keyboard shortcuts into our web site.
These shortcuts include:
1 – Home Page
2 – Skip to main navigation
3 – Site Map
4 - Skip to main content
8 – Your Privacy
S - Search
0 – Accessibility Information
To use these access keys, please follow the instructions below:
Windows PC's: press 'Alt' + 'Shortcut' ( + 'Return' for Explorer).
Apple Mac's: press 'Control' + 'Shortcut'. Unfortunately the current version of Opera does not support this feature.
Accessibility references
Web browsers
Assistive technology
- JAWS: screen reader
- Lynx: text web browser