Accessibility

Standards

This site is taking steps to meet the University's minimum standard for web accessibility - compliance with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) AA guidelines.

Alternative Formats

If you have problems accessing the site or if you require any part of the content in an alternative format, please get in touch with us

Access keys

Access keys are a navigation device enabling you to get around this web site using your keyboard.

In-depth information about access keys can be found at W3C Accessibility Guidelines.

Available access keys

This site uses a setup that closely matches most international recommendations on access keys. These are:

• 1 — Home Page
• 2 — Skip to content
• 5 — Sitemap
• 6 — Site navigation tree
• 0 — Access Key details

Using access keys in different web browsers

Internet Explorer 5+ (Windows)

Hold down the Alt key, press the number or letter of the access key, release both keys then press ENTER.

Firefox, Mozilla and Netscape 7+ (Windows)

Hold down the Alt key and press the number or letter of the access key.

Firefox, Mozilla and Netscape 7+ (Mac OS X)

Hold down the Ctrl key and press the number or letter of the access key.

Safari and Omniweb (Mac OS X)

Hold down the Ctrl key and press the number or letter of the access key.

Internet Explorer 4 (Windows)

Hold down the Alt key and press the number or letter of the access key.

Internet Explorer 5+ (Mac)

Hold down the Ctrl key and press the number or letter of the access key.

Internet Explorer 4.5 (Mac)

Access keys are not supported, please use a different browser.

Netscape 6 and earlier (All platforms)

Access keys are not supported, please use a different browser.

Display: making the site easier to view

The appearance of this site is governed by stylesheets which may be turned off in your browser if you wish, or overridden by your own stylesheet or by changing settings in your browser. Information on how to do this is given in the next section.

Enlarging Text

You can scale the text and menus up and down -

Internet-Explorer:

In the menu, select View > Text Size.

Netscape:

In the menu, select View > Increase Font or View > Decrease Font.

Firefox:

In the menu, select View > Text Zoom.

Opera:

In the menu, select View > Zoom.