Accessibility Statement

Accessibility tools

We want as many people as possible to be able to use our website and have installed an Accessibility Toolbar that you can access from an icon at the top left of every screen. It gives options to:

• Increase or decrease font by over 300%
• Set greyscale
• Set negative contrast
• Set high contrast
• Set a light background
• Underline links
• Change to a readable font
• Link to sitemap / feedback / help pages

Our accessibility features make it possible to

• Skip to content
• Add outline focus for focusable elements
• Remove the target attribute from links
• Add landmark roles to all links
• Customise style
• navigate most of the website using just a keyboard
• navigate most of the website using speech recognition software
• listen to most of the website using a screen reader (including the most recent versions of JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver)

 
Although this website deals with technical and specialist issues, we have also made the website text as straightforward as possible and have been guided by AbilityNet who have advice on making your device easier to use if you have a disability. 

How accessible is this website?

We know some parts of this website are not fully accessible:

• the text will not reflow in a single column when you change the size of the browser window
• you cannot modify the line height or spacing of text
• some older PDF documents are not fully accessible to screen reader software
• live video streams do not have captions
• some of our online forms may be difficult to navigate using just a keyboard
• you cannot skip to the main content when using a screen reader