Accessibility Statement
We are committed to ensuring that our website is accessible to everyone. If you have any questions or suggestions regarding the accessibility of this site, please contact us and we will try to improve the website to reflect your needs.
Standards Compliance
- All pages on this site are XHTML 1.0 Strict.
- All pages on this site use structured semantic markup. For example, h2 and h3 tags are used to convey document format. h2 tags are used for main titles, h3 tags for subtitles etc.
- All pages on this site use valid markup, validated using the HTML validation service provided by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
- All pages on this site are presented using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and have been validated using the CSS validation service provided by the W3C.
Navigation
- Primary site navigation is located below the masthead of each page.
- If you are viewing this site with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) switched off, the alternative text based navigation menu is available at the base of each page.
- A link to the home page is available on each page.
- Navigation menus are marked up as HTML lists and styled with CSS.
- To enhance user experience this site utilises a small amount of JavaScript. If JavaScript is disabled or your browsing software does not support JavaScript the site is still fully functional.
Links
- Many links have title attributes which describe the link in greater detail, unless the text of the link already fully describes the target.
- Links are written to make sense out of context.
- For users of text only browsers the "Skip to content" link is made visible at the top of each page.
Visual design
- This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout. If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.
- This site also allows browser-based font resizing, making sure that site visitors can enlarge the font size without breaking the page layout in any way.
- All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes.
- Foreground and background colours have been used that provide a good level of contrast and therefore easy to read. Throughout the site, colour is never used as the only way to convey information.
Access keys
- Most browsers support jumping to specific links by typing keys defined on the web site. On Windows, you can press ALT + an access key and then press RETURN or ENTER key; on Macintosh, you can press Control + an access key.
- Most primary navigation links on this site use the following access keys:
Listed below is a set of access keys used in the navigation menu:
- a - About us
- s - Staff
- p - Programmes
- r - Research
- u - Students
- i - Industrial services
- l - Laboratories
Basic Access keys on this website are shown below and are numbered 0-9.
0 - Accessibility statement | 1 - Return to home | 2 - Back to top | 3 - Sitemap | 4 - [RESERVED] | 5 - Skip to site navigation | 6 - Skip to main content | 7 - Text only | 8 - Small text | 9 - Large text
Last modified on 26 August, 2006