Accessibility Information

Web Accessibility Initiative

We have set out to achieve the highest standards of accessibility, in line with the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) and Government guidelines.

While we strive to keep our website in line with the current web accessibility standards, we need feedback from real web users. Do you have a disability that affects the way you use the web? For example, do you use assistive technologies such as a screen-reader? Do you find this site easy to use? Is there anything we could do to improve accessibility? Contact us to tell us what you think.

 

Text sizing

There are various ways to change the size of the text displayed on each page.

At the top of each page on the right hand side, the text size can be increased or decreased by clicking on the ‘A A A’ icon.

You can also change the text size settings in your web browser. In most web browsers (e.g. Internet Explorer) this is done by going to the 'View' menu and selecting the 'Text size' option.

 

Listening to web site content using Dixerit Plus

You can listen to pages on our website using Dixerit Plus. To display the Dixerit Plus toolbar, click on the 'Listen to this page' text displayed on every page.

You can then listen to a page, in several different ways:

Highlight the text you want to listen to and click the “Read Text” icon

Hover your mouse cursor over the paragraph you want to listen to and click the “Paragraph” icon that appears

Click the “Read Links” icon to have all the links on the page read out to you. To follow a link, enter its number into the “Go to” box and click “Go”.

 

Browser and operating system support

Dixerit Plus fully supports Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac and GNU/Linux operating systems for its reading functions and has been extensively tested with the most popular operating systems and browsers.

For users of Mozilla Firefox under Linux we recommend the use of MozPlugger as a media player. MozPlugger is distributed under the GNU General Public License and can be obtained from http://mozplugger.mozdev.org/.

Dixerit Plus also supports Apple Mac operating systems (OS9 and later) and has been fully tested with Safari.

The additional software applications provided as part of Dixerit Plus - WebRead, Magnifier and Contrast - require a Microsoft Windows operating system. Users of Linux and Apple Mac operating systems should utilise the free accessibility software available on their platforms, including the built-in Zoom under OS-9 and OS-X, and Gnopernicus under Linux.