Web Accessibility Initiative
This website endeavours to conform to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0. The Accessibility Guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with disabilities. Conformance to these guidelines helps to make the web more accessible to users with disabilities and benefits all users.
There may be some pages that do not conform to all the guidelines. While every effort is made to ensure the whole site complies, this is an ongoing process and some content may not yet reach the standards in all areas.
If you have any problems accessing any information on the site, please contact the Excellence Gateway team and we shall endeavour to fix the problem or provide the information in an appropriate format. The web team can be emailed at excellence.feedback@qia.org.uk
W3C - Validation service
This website is built using code compliant with World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards for XHTML and Cascading Style Sheets. W3C is the governing authority on web development standards and practices. The site displays correctly with current browsers, and using standard XHTML code means that any future browsers will also display this website correctly. If you have a problem viewing any part of this website in your browser, email the web team at excellence.feedback@qia.org.uk
Access keys
Access keys are shortcuts to provide quick and easy access to common pages without the need for a mouse and have been included to assist users with disabilities navigate around the website.
Access keys are available for the menu on the left hand side and are used by holding Alt and pressing the corresponding key from the list below.
- 0 - Accessibility information
- 1 - Homepage
- 2 - Site map
- 3 - Quickfind (Browse or Search for a resource)
- 4 - Help
Increasing text size
If you find the text on this site is too small, you can change it easily in your browser settings. To do this you should simply adjust your browser's settings.
- If you use Microsoft Internet Explorer, go to the View menu, select Text Size and then either Larger or Largest.
- If you use Netscape Navigator, go to the View menu and choose Increase Font until the text is the size you require.
Changing colours
Changing the site's background colour can be particularly useful for users who rely on magnification technology, since white can produce an uncomfortable glare. It is also possible to change the colour of body text on the site. Both can be achieved by changing preferences in your browser:
- If you use Microsoft Internet Explorer, go to the Tools menu, select Internet Options, select Colours and make changes to text and background colours in the Colours panel.
- If you use Netscape Navigator, go to the Edit menu, select Preferences, open the Appearance menu and select Colours. You can set the colour of text and background from here.
Images
All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes. Those in purely decorative graphics or used for layout include null ALT attributes.
Visual design
This site uses cascading style sheets (CSS) for visual layout. If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.
Contact us
If you have any questions or comments, please contact the web team at excellence.feedback@qia.org.uk.
Useful links
The following websites will have useful advice and information about web accessibility.