Access Statement

In the interests of helping to make the web accessible and useable by everyone, including people with physical, visual, or other impairments, accessibility features have been implemented on this site.

Accessibility Information

Our publications can also be made available on tape, in Braille, large print and community languages. For further details please contact our Communication Officer on 0845 130 1048 or email us on info@ces.co.uk

Design

This site uses cascading style sheets (CSS) for visual layout. All pages are built using structured markup so that if your browser or browsing device does not support style sheets (or you choose to turn them off), the content of each page is still readable. Very basic styles are implemented for Netscape 4 owing to its quirky interpretation of CSS. This site uses relative font sizes so that you can adjust the size of the text if you find it too small or too large. You can access the Text Size option by going to the website footer. In Netscape 6+, Mozilla and Firefox browsers, you can also adjust text size by holding down the CTRL key and pressing the + and - keys. Windows users with a wheel mouse can adjust text size by holding the CTRL key and turning the wheel.

Navigation

Navigation is consistent throughout all pages of this site. Every page includes links to the Text Only version (access key 1) and the Search form (access key 4). All pages include a "skip navigation" link to bypass the navigation bar. This enables users of text-only browsers and people navigating with tab keys rather than a mouse to jump straight to the page content. (On visual browsers this link is invisible if your browser deals correctly with cascading style sheets.). All links can be followed in any browser, even if scripting is turned off.

Web Standards

All pages on this site meet the Priority 1 requirements of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines; many of the Priority 2 and 3 requirements are also met. Further accessibility modifications are under review. All pages on this site validate to the XHTML 1.0 Strict specification. All style sheets validate to the W3C standard.