ACCESSIBILITY
Making Our Website Open to All
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Accessibility Statement
We are fully committed to making our services accessible to everyone, and that is as true for our website as it is for everything else.
As such, we have incorporated a number of features designed to assist navigation through the site both to partially sighted users and those who wish to navigate without the use of a mouse.
The site is built using cascading style sheets to create the visual layout, but if your browser does not support them, or they are disabled, the content of each page will still be visible.
All images and animations on the site have alternative descriptions; non-illustrative images (for example, spacers) have blank alternatives so they can still be distinguised from important content.
If you encounter any problems accessing the site, please contact us, and we will do everything we can to assist you.
Access Keys
Keyboard shortcuts known as Access Keys have been included in this website to assist navigation without a mouse. They can be used from any page in the site, and are listed below:
- 1 = home
- 2 = about
- 3 = site map
- 4 = services
- 5 = portfolio
- 9 = contact us
- 0 = accessibility
- t = top of page
- x = text only
You can use the access keys as follows:
Internet Explorer 7+ (PC): press and hold ALT and select the appropriate number/letter, then press enter
Firefox (PC): press and hold ALT and select the appropriate number/letter
Safari (Mac): press and hold CTRL + ALT and select the appropriate number/letter
Firefox (Mac): press and hold CTRL and select the appropriate number/letter
Netscape 6+ (Mac): press and hold CTRL and select the appropriate number/letter
Text Only Version
A text-only version of this site is also available for those who may find viewing the graphic version difficult. This can be accessed on ony page either by using the appropriate access key (x) or by clicking the link on the footer bar.
To change to the text-only version of the site now, click this link.
Alternative Font Sizes
You can increase (or decrease) the size of the text on this site using the controls built into your browser.
To change size on a PC, press and hold CTRL and then + to increase the size or - to reduce it.
On a Mac, press and hold CMD and then + or -
If you are using Internet Explorer, you need to go to the 'View' menu, then 'Text Size' and then select the appropriate option.
Browser Support & Markup Validation
This website has been tested on a wide variety of browsers on PCs running Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintoshes running OSX. While results may be unpredicatable on some older platforms, the main content of the page will be visible on any Standards-compliant browser.
For best results, we recommend Mozilla Firefox - to download the latest version, click on the icon below (this will open the relevant page of the Mozilla website in a new window).
However, if you prefer to use Internet Explorer, please note that we no longer support version 6 - you can upgrade to version 8 by clicking the icon below (this will open the relevant page of the Microsoft website in a new window).
Web Standards
This site conforms to level Double-A of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, including all Priority 1 and Priority 2 checkpoints defined in the Guidelines, and it also meets the W3C markup validation requirements for both HTML5 and Cascading Style Sheets. Select one of the options below to find out more (pages will open in a new browser window).
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