Accessibility

Accessibility Statement
We are committed to ensuring that our website is accessible to everyone. If you have any questions or suggestions regarding the accessibility of this site, please email us, as we are continually striving to improve the experience for all of our visitors.

Standards compliance
All pages on this site follow priorities 1 & 2 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

All pages on this site validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional.

Structural Markup
Web pages on our websiteinclude 4 different areas:

• A "top bar" that includes the main navigation
• A main content area
• A footer
• When CSS (Cascading Styles Sheet) are not applied to a document (or when using a screen reader), the 3 areas are read in the above order.

Access Keys
Unfortunately, access keys often clash with keys set aside for use with other UAs (i.e. assistive technology). For this reason, we have decided to not set default access keys.

Images
Unless they are purely decorative items, all images used on this web site have suitable alt attributes.

Content should be usable/accessible with images "off" (disabled).

Links
URLs are permanent whenever possible.

Forms
All form controls are appropriately and explicitly labeled.
We provide an email address as an alternative form of access for our online forms.

Scripts
We have used non obtrusive client-side scripts wherever possible.
The content of this web site is usable without JavaScript support.

Pop up Windows
Browsers with Popup Blockers should be able to access these documents.

Visual design
This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.

If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.

Any information conveyed through the use of color is also available without color (i.e. text based).

Accessibility references
W3 accessibility guideline, which explains the reasons behind each guideline.
W3 accessibility techniques, which explains how to implement each guideline.
W3 accessibility checklist, a guide to accessibility.