Accessibility information

We have strived to make this website available to all regardless of individual disability/ability.

However if, as a person with disability, you encounter difficulties, please don't hesitate to contact us and make us aware of the issue. We will endeavour to improve the website to reflect your needs.

Standards Compliance and Validation

All pages on this site use XHTML 1.0 Transitional mark-up, validated using the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C’s) validation service. To check this site for validation simply click on the XHTML logo in the footer of each page.
All pages on this site use structured, semantic mark-up. For example, h1, h2 & h3 tags are used to convey document format. h1 tags are used for main titles, h2 tags for subtitles etc.
All pages on this site use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS2) for presentation, validated using the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C’s) validation service. To check this site for validation simply click on the CSS logo in the footer of each page.
All pages on this site are checked in accordance with DDA, W3C and Section 508 guidelines and adhere/comply to these guidelines as much as possible. To check this site for validation simply click on the WAI AA logo in the footer of each page.

Navigation & Navigation Aids

Primary site navigation is located (site-wide) in the page header area at the top of each page.
If you are viewing this site with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) switched on but images switched off the alternative text based navigation menu is available in the footer area at the base of each page.
Secondary navigation elements are contained in the left hand column of relevant pages – this navigation is not site-wide and varies from page to page.
A link to the home page is available at the top of each page.
Navigation menus are marked up as HTML lists and styled with CSS.
Links fully describes the target.
Links are written to make sense out of context.
For users of text only browsers, the ‘skip to content’ link is made visible at the top of each page.
Forms have their labels explicitly associated with their controls, aiding users of certain screen readers and speech browsers.

Access Keys:

Most browsers support jumping to specific links by typing keys defined on the web site. Primary navigation links (sections) on this site use the following access keys:

Access key 0 – Home page
Access key 1 – Dealing with change
Access key 2 – Personality
Access key 3 - Colour & style
Access key 4 - Events
Access key 5 - Factsheets
Access key 6 - Clients
Access key 7 - About me
Access key 8 - Contact me

Depending on the web browser, please use following key combinations to use access keys:

Alt + accesskey followed by Enter

Internet Explorer for Windows

Alt + accesskey

Firefox for Windows <= 1.5
Mozilla for Windows
Netscape 6+ for Windows

Alt + Shift + accesskey

Firefox 2 for Windows

Shift + Esc + accesskey

Opera for Windows or Mac

Ctrl + accesskey

Internet Explorer 5.2 for Mac
Safari 1.2 (Mac only)
Firefox for Mac (including Firefox 2)
Mozilla for Mac
Netscape 6+ for Mac

Browsers that are not supporting accesskeys

Camino (Mac only)
IE < 4
Netscape < 6

How did we choose these keys?

The use of numbered keys and 's' as access keys have been selected based on research done by WATS.ca that shows minimal conflict with browser reserved shortcut keys.

JavaScript

This site does not use Javascript.

Images

All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes.
Purely decorative graphics (if any are present) will include a ‘null’ ALT attribute.

Visual Design

To enhance user experience this site utilises a small amount of Flash, there are links inside this movie - these are duplicated in HTML links in the page.
This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.
If your browser or browsing device does not support style sheets at all, the content of each page is still readable but in a stylistically reduced capacity.
This site uses relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified "text size" option in visual browsers. .

Colour

Foreground and background colours have been used that provide a good level of contrast and are therefore easy to read. Throughout the site, colour is never used as the only way to convey information.