We are working to ensure this website confirms to a minimum of Level AA accessibility as set out by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (WCAG 1.0).  All checkpoints within Level A and AA must be adhered to.

The following are identified as being particularly important (for the full guidelines visit the WAI site):

• A text equivalent for every non-text element (i.e. image or multimedia file) should be provided
• Documents should be organized so they are readable without requiring an associated stylesheet
• For data tables, markup should be used to clearly identify and associate data cells and cell headers
• Frames should be avoided
• The site will not use technologies that require the downloading of new software (e.g. Flash), if this can be avoided.  If this cannot be avoided an accessible version will be provided
• On each page where Adobe PDF files are used users are referred to full details on accessing these files by a variety of means
• Content should be clear, concise and accessible to all 
• The site should still work with:
  • keyboard only
  • JavaScript turned off
  • stylesheets turned off
  • linearised order
  • text only browser or screen reader

Once we are confident we have achieved this 'AA' level we shall look at complying with the more difficult 'AAA' guidelines.