Accessibility

This site was designed, built and is maintained by CST Group. CST has taken an active interest in accessibility issues and have endeavoured to produce this site to a high accessibility standard. The following features improve the accessibility for screen reader users, keyboard navigation and users of text-only browsers.

Structured, semantic markup

CST has recognised the need to use structured meaningful mark up and to separate style from content where possible.

HTML heading tags are used to convey document structure. H1 tags are used for main titles, h2 tags for subtitles and so on. This can make it easier for people with screen reading devices to gain a quicker understanding of the page's content.

Navigation menus are marked up as XHTML lists. This ensures that it can be skipped easily and the number of links in the list is read out at the start.

This website validates to XHTML Strict 1.0 (validator.w3.org). Although this is no guarantee that a site is accessible, we feel that it is beneficial to the user that this site validates as XHTML strict.

Links

Links are created so that they still have meaning when read out of context.

Images

All non-decorative images used in this site include descriptive alt attributes. Purely decorative graphics include empty alt attributes or are not included in the XHTML.

Font sizes

You may change the text size of this document using your browser's accessibility features. This won't break the layout and the text will remain legible.

Forms

We have tried to make our forms as accessible as possible by keeping the layout of them as simple and logical as possible. Also Labels are associated with fields using HTML label tags, Radio and checkboxes come before the associated labels and a HTML fieldset is used to group sets of form controls together.

Scripting

The majority of the scripting is server side and the rest of the site is accessible if client side scripting is unavailable.

Having said all of that...

We're only human, and we may have made mistakes. We believe that no web site is truly accessible to everybody as people have different needs, also accessibility guidelines are constantly being reviewed and refined. If you spot any accessibility problems on this website please let us know