Accessibility
I take accessibility seriously. I am committed to meeting the requirements of the Disability Discrimination Act 
and I am making every effort to ensure my communications are accessible to those with special needs, including those with visual, hearing, cognitive and motor impairments.
I have worked hard to make this website adhere to priority 1, 2 and 3 guidelines of the W3 Web Content Accessibility Guidelines .
Hopefully you will find this website easy to use and will not encounter any accessibility related issues. However, below are some accessibility advice that may help you get more out of the site.
In the majority of cases the text of the link already fully describes the target. Wherever possible, links are written to make sense out of context. Many browsers (such as JAWS, Home Page Reader, Lynx and Opera) can extract the list of links on a page and allow you to browse the links separately from the page.
Link text is never duplicated. Two links on the same page with the same link text always point to the same address.
I continually make efforts to minimise the number of PDFs on my website. Where they appear, they are accompanied by a link to the Adobe site where you can 
download free Acrobat Reader software , allowing you to view these documents. Adobe has recently updated its free reader to include screenreading functionality.
Decorative and functional images feature null ALT attributes. Other images on my website include descriptive ALT attributes.
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The website is free of frames and uses a cascading style sheet (CSS) for visual layout. Tables are used for tabular data, but I have tried to avoid using them wherever possible.
The stylesheet uses relative font sizes and is written to display pages correctly in most commonly-used browsers. In early versions of browsers and browsing devices that do not support stylesheets at all, the flow of the content has been tested to ensure it entirely retains its sense.
You can use the third party website iyhy.com to create a text-only version of my website. Please notify me of any problems you experience using this.
I have tested my website on a number of Operating Systems (OS) such as Windows, Macintosh and Linux with the following browsers, screen sizes ranging from 800px to 1600px in width and Javascript enabled:
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(Does Not Load Correctly)I have also tested my website for screen readers and text-only browsing capability such as Lynx.
My website relies on CSS2, which is unsupported by IE 5, IE 5.5, Konqueror 3.5 & Epiphany 2.14. It can still be accessed on these browsers but with no styling applied to the pages. My decision to use CSS2 was taken due to the very small number of Internet users browsing with these older versions (now less than 1%). I apologise for any inconvenience this may cause you and as an Internet & Multimedia specialist I would ask if you could upgrade your browser to the latest version.
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Most modern browsers have an option to increase the size of viewable text. This is generally located in the top toolbar of your browser under the 'View' option. You can also use the CTRL key with the '+' plus key (to make text larger) or the '-' minus key (to make text smaller). Alternatively, scroll with the wheel of your mouse whilst holding down the control key.
Below I demonstrate how to change text size on the two main browsers; Internet Explorer and Firefox.
To resize text in Internet Explorer go to View > Text Size and select the text size you require.
In Firefox you can select to increase or decrease text size by pressing CTRL + or CTRL - respectively. Alternatively these options can also be found under View > Text Size.
If your browser is not listed above additional instructions are available from the BBC .
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