Accessibility Compliance

This site has been designed to reach a double A level of accessibility as outlined by the WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines). This site contains many features to help users with disabilities navigate easily. These features are described below.

Page Layout

The main sections of the site are listed in the main menu down the left of each page on this website. There are also minor menus at the top and bottom of each page. Some pages will have sub-menus that will display as links in the text area of the page.

Links to other language sites can be located from a drop-down menu in the top left corner of any page.

You can also navigate the site via the Site Map

Resizable Text

All text on this site is resizable; it can be made larger or smaller according to your preferences by changing the default text size in your browser.

Internet Explorer

To increase the size of text in Windows Explorer 5+, select View > Text Size > Larger/Largest

Netscape Navigator 6 (above)
To increase the size of text in Netscape 6+, select View > Text Size > Larger or press Ctrl++

Please Note: increasing the size of the text will affect the page layout.

Browsers:

This site may be viewed in any browser or Internet device, but looks best in one that complies with web standards created by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). To find out more visit their site, http://www.w3.org

This site is best viewed using the following browsers:

Microsoft Windows

Internet Explorer 5.0; 6.0
To upgrade to the latest Microsoft Browser: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.asp

Netscape: 6.0; 7.0
Upgrade to the latest Netscape Browser: http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/

Mozilla: 1.0
http://www.mozilla.org/

Opera 6.0
http://www.opera.com/

Apple Macintosh

Internet Explorer 5 or greater
http://www.microsoft.com/mac

Netscape 7
http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/

Mozilla
http://www.mozilla.org/