- Accessibility
Outlines the measures that we have taken for our website to be accessible. - Site Map
A concise list of all of the pages on our website for easy access.
Accessibility
This website has been designed to be as accessible to as many people as possible. Most pages have been tested with Screen Reader software. Access keys have been set up to ease navigation with screen readers, and for users who prefer the keyboard to the mouse. If you experience any difficulty in viewing it, then please contact us and we will try and help sort this out.
Using your keyboard to navigate our site.
We have especially adapted our web site to support keyboard commands to navigate to the main areas of the site. They are known as Access Keys.
Access keys make navigating websites much easier, both for screen readers but also for people such as typists who find it quicker to use the keyboard to navigate around a website.
For Example, to move to the home page, hold down the ALT key and press the number 1, then press the Enter key and you will quickly navigate to the home page.
Every page in this website has the access keys set up; use of Alt S to move to Skip the navigation menu at the top of a page and Alt N to move to the Navigation links make navigating the website quick and easy for all.
This website also uses the tab key to make navigation easier. When you press the tab key you go directly to the links in the page. This allows fast navigation without needing to use the mouse.
Please note: Keyboard Navigation is intended to be mainly used with screen readers, some of the major web browsers (including Mozilla Firefox) do not support this kind of navigation. If you wish to use keyboard navigation features, we recommend Microsoft Internet Explorer. Alternatively, use the TAB key to jump between links.
List of Access Keys used
- Alt 0 - List of access keys (this page)
- Alt 1 - Home Page
- Alt 2 - About
- Alt 3 - Showcase
- Alt 4 - Schools
- Alt 5 - Community
- Alt 6 - Training
- Alt 7 - Xtra
- Alt M - Site Map
- Alt S - Skip navigation
- Alt C - Contact page
People with limited vision
If you suffer poor sight there are several things you can do to make the screen easier to read.
Increase or decrease the text size through your browser setting.
There are several methods of doing this, depending upon your browser.
- Internet Explorer - select Page | Text Size from the browser's menu bar and then choose a size.
- Mozilla Firefox - select View then Text Size then Increase or Decrease from the browser's menu bar. Or simply press the Control key and the + key together to increase the text size and the Control key and the - key together to decrease the text size.
- Opera - press the + or - (minus) key on your number pad
People with little or no vision
This website makes use of features such as style sheets and access keys. This makes the website as easy as possible to read and navigate for people with little or no vision using a screen reader.
Other disabilities
A mouse and keyboard are the most common ways of using a computer, including the Internet. However some people have difficulties using one or both of these and may benefit from using other technologies such as larger keyboards, a joystick instead of a mouse, or voice recognition systems.
Colour Blindness
The colours used on this website have been checked so that the 10% of people with red/green colour blindness should still be able to view them.
Use of Flash Technology
Occasionally this website utilises Flash technology for supporting imagery, audio or video content. We stress that no important text content is placed within the Flash plugin as we are fully aware that Screen Readers cannot access such content.