This page describes some of the features used in making this site accessible to all users.

Standards compliance

All pages on this site comply with priority 1 and 2 guidelines of the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

All pages have been validated as XHTML 1.0 Transitional.

All stylesheets have been validated according to the specification of Level 2 CSS.

Images

All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics include null ALT attributes.

Complex images include LONGDESC attributes or inline descriptions to explain the significance of each image to non-visual readers.

Links

Links have title attributes that describe the link in greater detail, unless the text of the link already fully describes the target.

Visual design

This site uses only relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified 'text size' option in visual browsers.

This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout. If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets, the content of each page is still readable.

If you are experiencing any problems with the accessibility of this site, or if you use adaptive technology and have any suggestions about how we could meet your particular needs, we would be very pleased to receive your comments.