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Accessibility

Text Size

You can view this site using the standard text size or you can choose to make the text larger (or smaller) by changing the text size option in your web browser. In Internet Explorer and Firefox this option is under the View menu on the toolbar.  You can also use the increase text size options displayed in the header of the website.

Screen Readers

Our website is compliant with screen readers such as JAWS.

For additional help on accessing websites we strongly recommend you visit the BBC Accessibility Help pages on www.bbc.co.uk .  These pages offer extensive support on different ways to customise your browser, PC or MAC, and keyboard. It also recommends various software packages which can assist users in accessing a wide range of websites.

Standards Compliance

The Word Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an organisation that employs experts who know how to make websites more accessible or easier to use. The W3C experts have written a number of standards or guides to help website developers ensure that the sites they are building are accessible to as many people as possible.

This site has been tested and passed against WAI WAGC1 Level AA Accessibility Guidelines compliance, complying with all priority 1 and 2 guidelines of the W3C web content accessibility guidelines.