Accessibility Statement

This website has been designed with accessibility in mind, helping to meet your needs and find the information you are looking for. Please let us know if you have experienced a problem accessing or reading any material and we will try to provide the information in a more accessible format that is useful to you.

This site has been designed to conform to the W3C-WAI Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 level Double-A, COI Web Standards and Guidelines and eGif v6.2. We have reviewed the guidelines and believe that we have achieved compliance but if you have experienced any difficulties please let us know by contacting the Unit.

Increasing text size

Some users might find screen text easier to read by increasing the size at which text is displayed. To do this you should simply adjust your browser's settings.

Depending on your browser type use one of the following:

• if you use Microsoft Internet Explorer, go to the View menu, select Text Size and then either Larger or Largest;
• if you use FireFox hold down the Ctrl key then press the + key to enlarge text size
• if you use Safari go to the View menu then select Make Text Bigger

Downloadable documents

Where possible we have included downloadable files in Adobe PDF format. To view these files you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader which you can download free from Adobe’s website:

Download Acrobat Reader

Visit http://access.adobe.com for tools which convert PDF files to html or text files and for further information about PDFs and accessibility.

Help with searching for information

To search for a specific page or topic, type a few descriptive words in the Search website box in the top right hand corner of the screen and press the enter key or click on the search button. The search results will be displayed as a list of page titles and descriptions in order of relevance for you to select.