How we aim to make this site usable for as many visitors as possible.
We believe that access to information on the web matters for everyone, and we aim to offer a site that is straightforward to use whether you rely on assistive technologies, keyboard navigation, or changes to text size and contrast in your browser.
This statement summarises the accessibility-related choices we have made. It is not a legal audit; if something does not work for you, please contact us and we will do our best to help or to put information in another format.
The site is styled with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). You can override colours and fonts using your browser or operating system settings where available, and much of the layout will still make sense if user styles are applied.
Text size is specified in relative units where possible so you can enlarge page text using browser zoom or text-only scaling without breaking the reading order of the page.
We aim to follow widely recognised good practice for web accessibility, including the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), and to have regard to duties under UK equality law (including the Equality Act 2010) when making decisions about how content is presented. Not every page may yet meet every success criterion; we treat accessibility as an ongoing improvement effort.
Pages use a consistent header and footer, with clear headings within articles so you can move through sections in a logical order. Interactive controls are intended to be usable from the keyboard where they are under our control.
A machine-readable list of public URLs is published as a sitemap for search engines and for anyone who prefers an overview of the site: sitemap.xml.